split infinitive
noun/splɪt ɪnˈfɪnɪtɪv/US
Definitions
An infinitive with one or more modifiers inserted between the to and the verb.
- The split infinitive was regrettable, but the writers of Star Trek came up with the phrase to capture the essential idea brought to mind at the mention of the words "frontier" and "pioneer": "to boldly go where no man has gone before."
- Such fetishes as insisting on It's I, not ending sentences with prepositions, and avoiding split infinitives are all dismissed as the nonsense they are.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for split infinitive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA