Even More Usage Limericks

If you’re wondering if we allow cruelly conjugated Infinitives Hardly a question, Because it’s not a violation; You can crop them as you see fit.

English speakers have been conjugating their infinitives since the 14th century (although there was a strange period of several hundred years where we all stopped doing it), and no one has yet died. for this practice. If you need to separate an infinitive to make your writing clearer, go ahead and separate it.

(Note: this is part two. Click here for the first round of advice on function, rhythm, rhyme!)

If you want to create your own puzzles, try our Rhyming Dictionary!

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