Split infinitive (English Wikipedia)

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Semerjyan, Maria. "The Split Infinitive in Modern English". Academia.edu.

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Walsh, Bill (2000). Contemporary Books (ed.). Lapsing into a comma: a curmudgeon's guide to the many things that can go wrong in print—and how to avoid them. Lincolnwood, Illinois: Contemporary Books. pp. 112–113. ISBN 0-8092-2535-2.
Merriam-Webster, Inc. (1994). Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage. Merriam-Webster. pp. 867–868. ISBN 0-87779-132-5. Retrieved 2009-11-12.
Quoted from P. Carey (1981) in Burchfield, R. W.; Fowler, H. W. (1996). The New Fowler's Modern English Usage. Oxford University Press. p. 738. ISBN 0-19-869126-2.
Robert Allen, ed. (2002). "Split infinitive". Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage (1926). Oxford University Press. p. 547. ISBN 0-19-860947-7.
Tooke, John Horne; Taylor, Richard (1840). The Diversions of Purley. London: Thomas Tegg. p. xxx. Retrieved 2015-12-07. Some writers of the present day have the disagreeable affectation of putting an adverb between to and the infinitive.
A Plea for the Queen's English: Stray notes on Speaking and Spelling, Henry Alford, Strahan, 1866, page 188
Bache, Richard Meade (1869). Vulgarisms and Other Errors of Speech (second ed.). Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger. p. 145. Retrieved 2006-10-31. Richard Meade Bache vulgarisms.
Raub, Robert N. (1897). Helps in the Use of Good English. Philadelphia: Raub & Co. p. 120. Retrieved 2006-11-13. Raub helps.
Hiney, Tom; MacShane, Frank (2000). The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909–1959. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. p. 77. ISBN 0-87113-786-0.
Quackenbos, John Duncan (1896). Practical Rhetoric. American Book Company. p. 222.
Lyons, John L. (1981). Language and Linguistics: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press. p. 50. ISBN 0-521-23034-9. Retrieved 2007-01-16.
Lederer, Richard (2003). A Man of My Words: Reflections on the English Language. St. Martin's Press. p. 248. ISBN 0-312-31785-9. Retrieved 2007-01-27. split infinitive Lowth.
Wilson, Kenneth G. (1993). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Columbia University Press. pp. 410–411. ISBN 0-231-06989-8. Retrieved 2009-11-12.
Fowler, H. W. (1996). Burchfield, R. W (ed.). The New Fowler's Modern English Usage. Clarendon Press. p. 738. ISBN 0-19-869126-2.

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"Split infinitives : Oxford Dictionaries Online". Askoxford.com. Archived from the original on October 25, 2004. Retrieved 2011-02-21.

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Van Gelderen, Elly (2004). Grammaticalization as Economy. John Benjamins. pp. 245–246. ISBN 90-272-2795-0. Retrieved 2010-10-31. not.doc .doc version

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"Homework Help and Textbook Solutions | bartleby". www.bartleby.com. Archived from the original on June 19, 2006.

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Partridge, Astley Cooper (1969). Tudor to Augustan English: A Study in Syntax and Style from Caxton to Johnson. Deutsch. p. 214. ISBN 9780233960920. Retrieved 2013-03-03.
Vizetelly, Frank (1915). Essentials of English Speech and Literature. Read Books. p. 156. ISBN 1-4086-6266-3. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
Some have suggested that another sentence in Shakespeare, from Coriolanus, Act I, scene 2, contains a split infinitive: "Whatever hath been thought on in this state, / That could be brought to bodily act, ere Rome / Had circumvention?" [1], [2] Others say that "bodily" here is an adjective and "act" is a noun, as Vizetelly and Johnson's Dictionary do.
The American Heritage Book of English Usage: A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English. Houghton Mifflin. 1996. pp. 34–35. ISBN 0-395-76786-5. Retrieved 2009-07-29.
Van Gelderen, Elly (2004). Grammaticalization as Economy. John Benjamins. pp. 245–246. ISBN 90-272-2795-0. Retrieved 2010-10-31. not.doc .doc version
Visser, F. Th. (1966). An Historical Syntax of the English Language, Part 2: Syntactical Units with One Verb. Vol. 2. Brill. p. 1039. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
"Reviews: A Novel in Journalese". The Scots Observer. IV (95): 489. September 13, 1890. Retrieved 2018-04-27. The split infinitive ('to solemnly curse') is a captain jewel in the carcanet [referring to 'gems' of a novel's grammar].
Brown, Keith; Ogilvie, Sarah (2010). Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World. Elsevier. p. 347. ISBN 978-0-08-087775-4.
Hickey, Raymond (2010). Eighteenth-Century English: Ideology and Change. Cambridge University Press. p. 81. ISBN 978-1-139-48959-1.
Ostade, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van; Wurff, Wim van der (2009). Current Issues in Late Modern English. Peter Lang. pp. 37–38. ISBN 978-3-03911-660-7.
Kamm, Oliver (2015). Accidence Will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide to English Usage. Orion. p. 245. ISBN 978-0-297-87194-1.
Barrett, Solomon Jr. (1859). Barrett's English Syntax. Boston: Bradley, Dayton, & Co. p. 164. Retrieved 2011-09-16.
Hill, Alette Olin (1997). "Pronoun Envy". In Carolyn Logan (ed.). Counterbalance: Gendered Perspectives on Writing and Language. Broadview Press. ISBN 1-55111-127-6. Retrieved 2007-01-16.
Kroeger, Paul R. (2004). Analyzing Syntax: A Lexical-Functional Approach. Cambridge University Press. p. 4. ISBN 0-521-81623-8. Retrieved 2007-01-16.

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P. (December 1834). "Inaccuracies of Diction. Grammar". The New-England Magazine. 7 (6): 467–470. Retrieved 2006-10-26.

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Bryant, M. M. (October 1946). "The Split Infinitive". College English. 8 (1). National Council of Teachers of English: 39–40. doi:10.2307/370450. JSTOR 370450.
Quoted by Hall, Fitzedward (1882). "On the Separation, by a Word or Words, of to and the Infinitive Mood". American Journal of Philology. 3 (9). The Johns Hopkins University Press: 17–24. doi:10.2307/287307. JSTOR 287307.; Strunk, William & White, E.B., The Elements of Style, fourth edition, Longman, 2000, p. 58, also speak of 14th-century examples.
Curme, George (May 1927). "The Split Infinitive". American Speech. 2 (8). Duke University Press: 341–342. doi:10.2307/452976. JSTOR 452976.

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Robert Lane Greene (writing as "Johnson (26 April 2018). "The ban on split infinitives is an idea whose time never came". The Economist. Retrieved 28 April 2018.

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Brown, Goold (1851). The Grammar of English Grammars. New York. Retrieved 2006-11-13.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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"Steven Pinker. Grammar Puss". Pinker.wjh.harvard.edu. 1992-10-04. Archived from the original on 2014-04-30. Retrieved 2011-02-21.

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Bryant, M. M. (October 1946). "The Split Infinitive". College English. 8 (1). National Council of Teachers of English: 39–40. doi:10.2307/370450. JSTOR 370450.
Quoted by Hall, Fitzedward (1882). "On the Separation, by a Word or Words, of to and the Infinitive Mood". American Journal of Philology. 3 (9). The Johns Hopkins University Press: 17–24. doi:10.2307/287307. JSTOR 287307.; Strunk, William & White, E.B., The Elements of Style, fourth edition, Longman, 2000, p. 58, also speak of 14th-century examples.
Curme, George (May 1927). "The Split Infinitive". American Speech. 2 (8). Duke University Press: 341–342. doi:10.2307/452976. JSTOR 452976.

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"To Boldly Go: Star Trek & the Split Infinitive". Usage notes. Merriam-Webster.com. April 26, 2018. Retrieved 2018-04-26.

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"Oxford Languages | The Home of Language Data". languages.oup.com. Archived from the original on April 17, 2006.

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Layamon (1993) [Published in print 1963-1978 for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, original author Layamon, fl. 1200at=Line 5221]. Brook, G. L.; Leslie, R. F. (eds.). British Museum Ms. Cotton Caligula A. IX and British Museum Ms. Cotton Otho C. XIII. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2018-06-20.

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Bailey, Richard (June 2006). "Talking about words: Split Infinitives". Michigan Today News-e. University of Michigan News Service. Retrieved 2006-11-29.

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"Oxford Languages | The Home of Language Data". languages.oup.com. Archived from the original on April 17, 2006.
"Steven Pinker. Grammar Puss". Pinker.wjh.harvard.edu. 1992-10-04. Archived from the original on 2014-04-30. Retrieved 2011-02-21.
"Split infinitives : Oxford Dictionaries Online". Askoxford.com. Archived from the original on October 25, 2004. Retrieved 2011-02-21.
"Homework Help and Textbook Solutions | bartleby". www.bartleby.com. Archived from the original on June 19, 2006.