Such a rewrite makes the unbearable strain of correct language use much easier. The sentence could be re-written: Difficult identification of a computer is achieved through changing the MAC address. So what type of “identification” are we making? “Difficult identification.”įinally, we arrive at the understanding that for this particular sentence structure “difficult” is being used as an adjective and would require the dropping the of “ly” which is typically a marker of an adverb. For the above, we are going to make “identification.” The word “identification” is a noun. Who or what are we going “to make” is the next question.
The sentence would then read through careful diagramming: “The reason may be to make identification difficult.” The subject and verb of the sentence would then be “Reason may be.” The words which follow form the infinitive phrase which is being used as a noun–a direct object.
In this case the isolated sentence reads: “One reason may be to change the MAC address to make identification difficult.”
Whatever–it did work.Įnglish Lesson: In the aforementioned series of phrases, the last is an infinitive phrase. It had something to do with covert operations which would provide me the same IP as the MAC that had been used from another machine so that my machine “appeared” to be the original machine. I’ve been using TMAC at which works fine however, I forgot why I absolutely needed to change my MAC address.
