Re: emacs documentation: what's active voice, passive voice?

[David Combs]

In article <cMWdnVIcw6z-PjfRnZ2dnUVZ_uadnZ2d@sysmatrix.net>,
B. T. Raven <nihil@nihilo.net> wrote:
>David Kastrup wrote:
>> "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net> writes:
>> 
>>> Yes, by their very nature, infinitives are split in English: "to love"
>>> vs. "amare." There's no room in the atom "amare" to insert anything.
>> 
>> So where do you split the infinitive in "Don't make me cry"?  I was not
>> aware that "to" was a part of the infinitive proper.
>> 
>
>Some say it is "the full infinitive" and some say it ain't. Some even
>say there is no infinitive in English, only the plain form that also
>serves for imperative and subjunctive (e.g. be that as it may). All
                                             ^^            ^^^


"Be" is (of course?) in the subjunctive.  What about the "may"?


Thanks!

David