infinitive

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 persuade: We were persuaded to go.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

The unsplit versions sound more elegant to me, though I can't be sure that my ears haven't been contaminated by a habit of cravenly unsplitting infinitives to avoid spitballs from the Gotcha!

From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2014

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