
ERRR #076. Nathaniel Swain on Writing to Learn
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I Forgot, I Forgot. Is It Correct?
I forgot is actually what's called a di-transitive verb. It can either be intransitive, they don't have an object or it could be transitive. And so is it also incorrect to just say I forgot? Well, that's an interesting one. Back to the infinities. Just to speak on them for an infinity time. If you put infinity in front of another noun, it doesn't always work unless you're making a compound word. So if you wanted to make that work, it would be infinite time because you turn the infinity into its adjective form and then you've got a nice construction there, which is adjective now. Or I could say infinity minutes
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