infinitive

All other Greek dialects known today have stopped using the infinitive found in ancient Greek.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 2, 2024

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

Several chalkboard placards display notes on different topics, including the definition of an infinitive, the four types of tissue, and capital cities in New England.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2017

Mount says the split infinitive is perfectly acceptable.

From BBC ● May 13, 2013

Theodore Bernstein, The Careful Writer: “There is nothing wrong with splitting an infinitive... except that eighteenth- and nineteenth- century grammarians, for one reason or another, frowned on it.”

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Even today, I have felt the urge to run that red light, or to boisterously split infinitives.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2017

English teachers were once satisfied if they could prevent their pupils from splitting infinitives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2015

This happens at all magazines, of course; at Slate, we recently stopped capitalizing, in headlines, to in infinitives: “To Be or Not To Be” became “To Be or Not to Be.”

From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2015

In that language, infinitives were an unsplittable single word: to split is dilaminare.

From Time ● Aug. 1, 2014

As Copperud wrote, “Shall, then, seems well on the way to extinction, much like the hapless Scot.” split infinitives.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker