infinitive
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From Fox News
Split infinitives in particular, he snaps, are “a thorn in my side.”
From Washington Post
Occasionally, when a fellow politician was speaking, he would cry out, “Split infinitive!”
From New York Times
Besides, the judge added, “I am confident that my former clerk did not play a substantial role in writing this brief. If he had, there would be no fewer than four split infinitives.”
From Washington Post
The politically charged feud unfolding between two Democratic gubernatorial candidates in Maryland — one who is gay and one whose running mate is gay — centers on an infinitive: to prance.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
