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Nadiyah August 3, 2010 4:37

Hello teacher Tanya
I invite you to join me in this month's Photo Challenge. please Checkout Photo Challenge#1 : Your Activity, http://my.englishclub.com/profiles/blogs/photo-challenge1-your. hope your days enjoyable thanks!

-Nadiyah-
Arunee July 29, 2010 6:23

Hi Tanya, I am Kai.
I am student in Thailand.
I hop leard about English with you.
My email is kaika54@hotmail.com wish you add me.
ADNAN July 28, 2010 0:27
ghab issa July 16, 2010 12:12

hi Tanya
ghabriel from syria ,i am very proud of u,reall y i read what u wrot ,its v nice,my email is ro.dolf2002@yahoo.com
wish u add me
Max July 7, 2010 20:02

Hey! Have a nice day!
Dreamer Ḿǻ₦ July 1, 2010 14:28

HELLO dear Tanya how are you missed you long time no see hope to see you soon :)
Nadiyah June 8, 2010 11:39

thanks dear Tanya,
it's very kind of you to send your warmest congratulations.glad to accept it and you're right, it's always pleasant to be a winner. I can learn a lot from the members of My EC here ...

-Nadiyah-
Nadiyah May 28, 2010 13:44

yes, I know you meant, dear Tanya.
I visited your niece picture's.I'm really sorry about your orange ... but he made me laugh. a very nice cat!
thanks for sharing and asking about me ...
God blessing you

-Nadiyah-
Bill the English Teacher May 5, 2010 17:04

Tanya,
No problem on the subjunctive. I just want to give you an accurate answer and I need ot check some resources. Unfortunatley I am extremely busy right now. I will try to get to it when I can.
As far as "I have been impatiently waiting" and "I have impatiently been waiting" I will check into that also. I may be giving you the informal use and not the formal. I can see why the Canandians may be saying you can't split the been waiting just like the infinitive. So let me double-check.
Bill the English Teacher May 5, 2010 16:57

Tanya,
I know you are dedicated to teaching accurately and I respect that very much. If we could be face to face in person it would be so much easier to deal with these issues through back and forth conversation, gestures and facial expressions. But we can just try out best through writing.

The issue when using the infinitive is actually easy. There is a simple rule in English. Never split infinitives. This is a classic rule and is often broken in informal speech. But in formal or correct English, we don’t insert any words between the to and the base verb. So the only correct way to say this is:
He promised never to do that again.
Think of the infinitive as two words that are connected and they will lose their identity if we split them or separate them from one another. This is only true with infinitives as the compound and complex verb forms do split the verbs forms and we do insert adverbs into them.