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Cerberus

11:10 PM

@Link That is not correct.

You can't use a past participle after to.

The tenses are all right as they were.

Robusto

11:26 PM

@tchrist: Turns out watching dumb American movies dubbed into Spanish is really good exercise.

@JohanLarsson You seem to be an IKEA cowboy.

Cerberus

11:54 PM

@Robusto Why not watch dumb Spanish movies? Then you will also learn a bit more about they way they use the language.

Rather than the mere form.

And you'll learn many subtle cultural things, too.

tchrist

It’s perfectly grammatical. Personally, I’ve always abhorred that comma there: I can see no reason whatsoever for it to be there, I find it distracts and confuses far more than it helps … but alas, I am not yet supreme timelord ruler of the known and unknown universes, so I can’t really dictate how other people feel about it. Yet. But if you wish to be on my good side once I do become supreme timelord ruler, etc., then leave out the comma and just write, “Making that which needs to be better”. (Or, alternatively, “Improving what needs improving”, for that matter.) — Janus Bahs Jacquet Jan 10 at 10:59

Cerberus

I agree. Except that I would strike the first sentence.

And the bit about not dictating others.

> Shia militia leaders have vowed to seek revenge for the massacre by IS fighters and allied Sunni tribesmen of at least 700 soldiers, most of them Shia, at Camp Speicher outside Tikrit last June.

BBC News is horrible, their website.

tchrist

The news is always horrible.

Cerberus

Nah.