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		graycat on Dec 30, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nashville police chief shares message, responds to... I thought of that but regarded 'gradually' as too far, too many words away, from 'get', the word it is modifying.

aninhumer on Dec 30, 2014 [–]

It's not as good as the split infinitive, but it works okay despite the distance, because it's modifying the entire sentence.

graycat on Dec 31, 2014 | [–]

When I was diagramming sentences, they never let me modify "the entire sentence"! Maybe the reason was that Latin never did that!

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