infinitive
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All other Greek dialects known today have stopped using the infinitive found in ancient Greek.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 2, 2024
The NI Civil Service did remove the split infinitive of "to boldly go", replacing it with a more grammatically correct version.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2022
Correct French would not have used the infinitive “tuer,” but rather the past participle, ending with an “e” to agree with the female writer, Ms. Marchal.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2021
His father had strong views about ending a sentence with a preposition and thought it a “heinous sin” to split an infinitive.
From Washington Post ● May 29, 2019
With the infinitive, use forbid: She was forbidden to go.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Anne Carson says: “You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.”
From Slate ● May 15, 2019
English teachers were once satisfied if they could prevent their pupils from splitting infinitives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2015
In that language, infinitives were an unsplittable single word: to split is dilaminare.
From Time ● Aug. 1, 2014
QL: It would not worry me if Russians split infinitives.
From The Guardian ● May 11, 2013
Writers of English have been merrily “splitting” infinitives since the 1300s.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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