infinitives

-- _Change the infinitives in these sentences into participles, and the participles into infinitives_: --

Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg

In this case: “The rule against splitting infinitives is incorrect, and from now on people who object to split infinitives will be taken in back of the …” You get the idea.

Led astray by the no-split-infinitives fetish « Motivated Grammar 2009

THEREFORE, English teachers in the public schools of the STATE shall not instruct that the splitting of infinitives is forbidden, but may urge students not to split infinitives.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Astral Physics 2010

But in English, infinitives like "to go" and future-tense forms like "will go" are two words, not one, and there is not the slightest reason to interdict adverbs from the position between them.

jurabilis - juristisches Weblog aus Berlin 2009

The infinitives are the parts of the verb preceded by _to_; as, _to go, to see, to be, to have been seen_, etc.

Practical Grammar and Composition Thomas Wood

April 30, 2008 at 1:11 am it’s perfectly permissible to “split infinitives” in all English dialects. it isn’t in Latin because Latin has one-word infinitives! and that’s why somebody invented this arbitrary nonsense about splitting i know what you’re thinking – linguists love to boldly go where no person has gone before.

The most effective way to negate something is to actively affirm its opposite. - 22 Words 2008

A fascinating map much later in the book shows that the areas where locals habitually drop the final "n" in infinitives and plurals, etc, reflects this early alliance - the "n" is pronounced in Zeeland and the Belgian provinces of East and West Flanders; also to the northwest, everywhere above a line going roughly from Alkmaar to Arnhem; and in patches of both Limburgs.

December Books 14) The Year's Best Science Fiction, 22nd Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois papersky 2009

Johnson's focus on what the usefulness of communication emphasizes the importance of the content rather than why one shouldn't end a sentence in a preposition or whether or not to split infinitives.

George Mocharko: Book Review: Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little George Mocharko 2011

Johnson's focus on what the usefulness of communication emphasizes the importance of the content rather than why one shouldn't end a sentence in a preposition or whether or not to split infinitives.

George Mocharko: Book Review: Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little George Mocharko 2011

Most famously, great writers have split infinitives and ended sentences with prepositions for centuries, yet somehow bans on both usages became "rules" that have been taught to millions of speakers in English, in contravention of their own good sense for their native language.

Grammar Pet Peeves: Who, Whom, None Is Or Are? 2011