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

The split infinitive is the most celebrated of grammar conundrums.

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

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

And English verb forms, like past participles, gerunds and infinitives, can be difficult to master, since Chinese verbs are unchanging.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2012

Writers of English have been merrily “splitting” infinitives since the 1300s.

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