单词	split infinitive
释义	split infinitive noun : an infinitive with to having a modifier between the to and the verbal (as in "to really start") Example Sentences “To really start” is an example of a split infinitive. Recent Examples on the Web The next year, President Kennedy made a resonant decision: to boldly go, as the Star Trek prologue was to put it in a ringing split infinitive, where no man had gone before. Anthony Haden-guest, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021 The app and browser extension works across programs and platforms, pointing out your split infinitives in emails, word processors, websites, or on social media. Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2020 Of course, split infinitives, dangling modifiers, and subject-verb disagreements have always appeared wherever words are uttered or keys are stroked. Jake Cline, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2019 For the prigs, the mania for FAANG stocks is as abhorrent as a split infinitive. The Economist, 23 June 2018 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Matthew Arnold, Anthony Trollope, Mark Twain, George Eliot, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Theodore Roosevelt and Rudyard Kipling all split infinitives. The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018 The app and browser extension works across programs and platforms, pointing out your split infinitives in email, word processors, websites or on social media. Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2018 Sime wielded a thick black pencil that split infinitives, popularized inventive adjectives and nouns (hoofer, chantoosies, warblers, kidvid, boffo) and turned other nouns into verbs (authored, readied, helmed). Sam Roberts, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2017 See More Word History First Known Use 1890, in the meaning defined above
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