It’s the splitting of an infinitive verb phrase, usually with an adverb.
For example, in “To boldly go where no man has gone before,” “To boldly go” is a split infinitive. In a non-split infinitive way, you’d say “To go boldly where no man has gone before.”
The classic example is “to boldly go where no man has gone before.” Inserting a word between “to” and “go” makes it a split infinitive. The classically grammatical version would be “to go boldly where no man has gone before.” Although I think that still ends with a preposition, so that’s another issue. 😉
The classically grammatical version is ‘to boldly go’. It wasn’t until some Latin-obsessed dorks in the mid nineteenth century that it was claimed to be ungrammatical.
The point of Latin and split infinitives is that it is impossible to split an infinitive in Latin because the infinitive was part of a form of the word…the word ended in something like -re. It would be like splitting a plural in English…”two cat black s” instead of “two black cats”.
For the life of me I can’t remember what a ‘Split Infinitive’ is.
It’s the splitting of an infinitive verb phrase, usually with an adverb.
For example, in “To boldly go where no man has gone before,” “To boldly go” is a split infinitive. In a non-split infinitive way, you’d say “To go boldly where no man has gone before.”
The classic example is “to boldly go where no man has gone before.” Inserting a word between “to” and “go” makes it a split infinitive. The classically grammatical version would be “to go boldly where no man has gone before.” Although I think that still ends with a preposition, so that’s another issue. 😉
“This is the type of English up with which I will not put.”
What, Yoda speak is this?
The classically grammatical version is ‘to boldly go’. It wasn’t until some Latin-obsessed dorks in the mid nineteenth century that it was claimed to be ungrammatical.
The point of Latin and split infinitives is that it is impossible to split an infinitive in Latin because the infinitive was part of a form of the word…the word ended in something like -re. It would be like splitting a plural in English…”two cat black s” instead of “two black cats”.
At least she didn’t use no double negatives.
That still would have been not unblackmailable
I meant wouldn’t