2006-11-25 02:19:49 · 17 answers · asked by Silkie1 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Get a medical dictionary.
2006-11-25 02:39:00 · answer #1 · answered by brainlady 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you sure it was you?
There is a school of thought that has a compelling hypothesis to the effect that after the first detonation of the first fission bomb, infinitives irrationally started to spontaneously split themselves for no apparent reason. It was at about this same time that split ends and split skirts are first recorded to have occasionally been observed.
Next year, A new multi-national project is being started in France to explore the viability of Nuclear Fusion on a commercial scale. If and when they get it right, all split infinitives will automatically repair themselves, shampoo companies will go out of business and red-blooded males will regret the loss of the skirts.
2006-11-25 02:41:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The chop up infinitive rule is in basic terms a sprint pedantic nonsense based on the undeniable fact that the Latin infinitive is a unmarried be conscious. Julius Caesar could desire to not have chop up an infinitive if he'd wanted to. English infinitives are created from 2 words, a complementiser (to) + base variety of the verb. words are, via definition, movable. people who extremely do not understand grammar latch onto those little usages and revel in making a production variety out of it whilst somebody violates the dumb rule. Has your instructor not something extra useful to faint over? And no, i'm not a slacker approximately language, i'm a school language coach, yet i actually can not do with pedantry.
2016-12-29 11:26:11 · answer #3 · answered by ludwig 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't sweat it. The rule comes from the days when both parts of the infinite were one word; eg., the Latin infinitive. I say to boldly split like no infinitive has been split before is the way to go.
Now, if you dangle your participle in public, that may be something we'd have to cite you for.
2006-11-25 02:21:53 · answer #4 · answered by question_ahoy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Super Glue
2006-11-25 02:27:51 · answer #5 · answered by U can't b serious 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As you have managed to badly split your infinitive I suggest you boldly go where others have gone before :-)
2006-11-25 02:30:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was once considered grammatically wrong to split infinitives (it was an attempt to hold English up to Latin standards), but it is perfectly acceptable now.
2006-11-25 08:25:36 · answer #7 · answered by The Doctor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to totally and thoroughly believe you have a God-given right to absolutely go ahead to completely split your infinitive.
2006-11-25 02:24:07 · answer #8 · answered by Edward DeVere 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go back to school and re take English lessons
2006-11-25 02:23:47 · answer #9 · answered by JJ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sticky-back plastic.
2006-11-26 23:38:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋