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Split infinitive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A split infinitive or cleft infinitive is an English-language grammatical construction in which a word or phrase, usually an adverb or adverbial phrase, comes between the marker to and the bare ...
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This is a split infinitive: ... Split infinitives are frequently poor style, but they are not strictly bad grammar. In the example above, to avoid the split infinitive would result either in weakness (to go boldly) or over-formality (boldly to go): either would ruin the rhythmic force and rhetorical pattern of the original.
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In particular, the placing of an adverb in English is extremely important in giving the appropriate emphasis: you really have to watch him and to go boldly where no man has gone before, examples where the infinitive is not split, convey a different emphasis or sound awkward.
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So, it is important to know that a correct answer on these tests may include a split infinitive ... So in this example, we really have no choice but to split the infinitive. ... Now here's an example of when not to split an infinitive:
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Get Grammar Girl's take on split infinitives. Learn whether splitting the infinitive is agains the rules or whether you're allowed to boldly split at will. ... You could rewrite the sentence without the split infinitive to make the same point. For example:
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Many writers feel that it is bad style to "split an infinitive" by inserting a modifying word after the "to." The following are examples of split infinitives: "to greedily take," "to enthusiastically laugh," "to finally be.
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The split infinitive construction goes back to the 13th century, but was relatively rare until the 19th. No split infinitives are to be found in the works of Shakespeare, Spenser, Pope, or Dryden, or in the King James Version of the Bible.
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Split Infinitives from the Chicago Style Q&A. Style advice from the publishers of the Chicago Manual of Style ... A. Dear Grammar Geekess, CMOS has not, since the thirteenth edition (1983), frowned on the split infinitive.
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