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Old 07-19-2021, 02:08 AM
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Two British universities have done studies on how the usages of split infinitives has evolved and declared that they're now okay to use.


So now you can ignore all those idiots who insist that it should be "to go boldly".



And of course we all remember that in the old Galactic Empire men dared to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before.


Incidentally, an infinitive is when you use the original form of a verb, i.e. "to go", the split is inserting "boldly."


In Latin the "to verb" form is one word, so you couldn't split it even if you wanted to. It still makes sense in Romance languages, but English is a Germanic language, so it's okay to split.
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