infinitive

For the stuff inside the split infinitive, it can to tough to know where else to put it.

And the point was not to say that the French is un-understandable, but that the structure and the use of infinitive form is alien to an English speaker.

It's not as good as the split infinitive, but it works okay despite the distance, because it's modifying the entire sentence.

To be really clear that 'boldly' modifies 'to go', it's easiest to split the infinitive.

It's a get-out-of-conjugation-free card because it flips the rest of your sentence into the infinitive.

And finally there is infinitive stream of movies, ads and others forms of art.

Interestingly, to me at least, I read the quote, and remembered the text with a split infinitive.

It's better to search on the base (infinitive) form of verbs, i.e.

Everyone seems to be trying to stretch what I said into an infinitive I had no intent of, which isn't actually present in my speech, in order to argue with the infinitive.

Pretty sure the 'to' there is a part of an infinitive.

I've noticed some Germans tend to mix up the present perfect and the infinitive, since they are the same in German.

Unfortunately in US 'going to shop' out of context would elicit the question 'where?' taking 'to shop' as an infinitive and not as an activity venue.

However, most modern English usage guides have dropped the objection to the split infinitive." 5.

It is "the right to peaceably assemble." The Constitution was written before the invention of grammar nazis, and before Victorian snobs decided you couldn't split an infinitive verb.

I'm guessing that it's a historical accident that "to" is demed part of the infinitive in English and "zu" isn't in German.

"To an infinitive split" would be awful!