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aninhumer on Dec 30, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nashville police chief shares message, responds to...

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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