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From: Joe Keane <jgk@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Can a nonlinguistic entity be part of a sentence?
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Summary: Why infinitive?
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 15:08:17 GMT
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In French, directions often use an infinitive, where we'd use an imperative.
Is there some hesitation about using imperative mood with inanimate objects?
For that matter, in this situation, who is giving commands to the reader?

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Joe Keane, amateur linguist
