[mrpoptart]

> There's just no good other place to put 'gradually'!

She wants to get rid of her teddy bears gradually.

[graycat]

I thought of that but regarded 'gradually' as too far, too many words away, from 'get', the word it is modifying.

[aninhumer]

It's not as good as the split infinitive, but it works okay despite the distance, because it's modifying the entire sentence.

[graycat]

When I was diagramming sentences, they never let me modify "the entire sentence"! Maybe the reason was that Latin never did that!

[tekromancr]

Not an english expert, but would "She wants, gradually, to get rid of her teddy bears" work?

[graycat]

Problem is, without thinking about the likely meaning, at first glance it's not clear what 'gradually' modifies, that is, it may modify 'wants', that is, her wanting is only gradual and not yet full; such are some of the possibilities of subtlety of meaning with the English language!

[tekromancr]

Ohh, I see the confusion there, but I like the ambiguity it causes. It reminds me of "Pretty little girl's school"