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Subject:Re: Which comes first From:Steven Feldberg <steven -at- ICU -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 26 Oct 1998 20:57:26 -0500
>I have a sentence as follows:
>
> When the new XXX is manually set, a single XXX must be taken out of
>service, then put back in service to trigger ...
>
>The question. is it "manually set" or "set manually"?
I was taught to avoid breaking up the verb phrase unless you have good
reason to do so (not quite the same thing as the ``split infinitive'' rule).
So I'd go with ``is set manually,'' keeping ``is set'' together.
/Steven Feldberg
Feldberg Communications
steven -at- icu -dot- com
