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An infinitive is a verb form with the word, how to do or to leave. Infinitives are often "split" by a word and between the bare infinitive: "To to go where no man has gone before. "

Split infinitives are common in speech and informal writing, but frowned upon in formal writing. I urge you to avoid split infinitives to your SA essay. Why take the chance?

How to repair a split infinitive? Move the adverb.

Not: "To boldly go."

But: "To go boldly."

Or go "too fresh."

Or remove Check out the adverb "too."

Why it is wrong to split an infinitive? Because it often weakens, not strengthens Conn.

To see the terrible damage that can be imposed by splitting infinitives, we see ourselves in two versions of "The Impossible Dream" (lyrics by Joe Darion).

Bad version, with split infinitives:

For frequently dream the impossible dream
Occasionally fighting the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable pain often
To run where the brave dared not diligently
To always be the law of unrightable wrong
The love inevitably pure and chaste from afar
Try Again when your arms are too weary
To finally reach the unreachable star

Good Version:

To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
Bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not
To the right of unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
So you do not reach the stars reached

Notice the difference? The second version is better, stronger, faster.

Bonus Question: How would you fix the title of this article?

David Wisehart is a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter living in Southern California. He blogs as The Grammar Guy at http://www.grammar-guy.com/

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