infinitive

Sitaridou's analysis of the Romeyka infinitive is key.

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

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

"I find it hard to specify when not to split an infinitive."

From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2014

If you keep the infinitive, use did not permit instead: We did not permit him 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

Do you go out of your way to avoid splitting infinitives, make gargling noises in the “10 items or less” queue, and have strong feelings about the word “whom”? Take a jersey: you’re team prescriptivist.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 7, 2017

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

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