San Diego Union-Tribune

Is it acceptable to occasionally split an infinitive?

Now that you have freed prepositions to bravely be sentence endings, you might clarify Miss Thistlebottom’s split infinitive rule. — Pam Rider, East Village, San Diego Joining the preposition rule in ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

It’s OK to boldly go and purposely split an infinitive

DEAR RICHARD: Now retired from 50 years of college teaching and having no more student papers to grade and critique, I address your recent U-T column. I so enjoy, appreciate, and support your language ...
The Economist

The ban on split infinitives is an idea whose time never came

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW was once so angry with a subeditor that he complained to the newspaper. “I ask you, sir,” Shaw wrote, “to put this man out.” The cause of his fury? The editor had insisted on ...
The Guardian

Split infinitives: the English ‘rule’ that refuses to quietly die

Salley Vickers, Angelica Goodden, John Doherty, Eddy York and Barbara Benedict weigh in on an eternal linguistic debate Re David Roberts’ letter deploring your use of a split infinitive (29 June); ...
The Washington Post

Split infinitives

A recent comment thread brought up the old debate about split infinitives. I’m for them, in the sense that I think there is nothing inherently ungrammatical or even clumsy about them. Sometimes they ...
Law

Split Infinitives Aren't Wrong But They Are Risky

A reader asked me whether splitting infinitives is grammatically correct. Most modern authorities say it is, but I recommend that you don’t spilt infinitives because it may irritate judges who were ...
Los Angeles Times

A WORD, PLEASE: Splitting infinitives? Let’s split

First you learn to crawl, then you learn to walk, then you learn to run (then you learn to drive five miles to the place where you like to walk or run). The same process applies to learning about ...
Columbus Dispatch

Banishing split infinitives is absolutely unnecessary

A letter comes to hand from Kevin MacArthur of Fredericksburg, Va. He has noticed an increased frequency in split infinitives and urges me forthrightly to denounce the trend. He writes: "What is most ...
The New York Times

INFINITIVES THAT SPLIT.

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