It’s important to note that these are mere opinions, but people latched onto them as if it were a rule to not split infinitives. This was how thegrammar mythgrew. In fact, this ”rule” doesn’t seem to appear
The Wilsons have always found it(planting flowers in the spring) splendid. Am I missing something? If so, can you clarify this sentence. GrammarBook.com says: October 2, 2021, at 6:21 am The quiz question (#2) you are inquiring about is similar to what is discussed in the article...
Are you studying English for get a better job, or to get a better job? Watch this video to address a very common English student mistake. Infinitives of purpose answer the question Why? or For what purpose? Understanding how to form them and use them wil
Give one of these sentence parts to each student (or pair of students if you have more than 8 in your class) and ask them to go and find their matching part and then stick the two parts on the board. Once everyone...
Exercises I. Fill in the blanks using the words in the box. several, feeling, owner, journey, satisfaction 1. I only want to sleep for ___ minutes. 2. The ___ from London to Oxford takes about an hour and a half. several journey several, feeling...
Smith’s plan is to buy a flat in the city in a year. 2. 我的工作是帮助这些贫穷的孩子学习语文。 My job is to help the poor children learn Chinese. 3. 他们的梦想是成为成功的生意人。 Their dreams are to become successful businessmen. 4. 现在最重要的事情是把这个事实告诉警察。 The most...
It had been routinely violated by the great writers in English; one 1931 study found split infinitives in English literature from every century, beginning with the fourteenth-century epic poemSir Gawain and the Green Knight. . .." (Robert Lane Greene,You Are What You Speak. Delacorte, 2011)...
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This is no anomaly. Below is a selection of unsplit infinitives I’ve come across, mostly in books. Some are ambiguous; others just sound a bit awkward, fussy, or unnatural to my ear. I don’t know whether it was the author or an editor (or translator, where applicable) who made th...
German and Dutch have extremely few root infinitives when there is anything in SpecCP. This does go with Rizzi’s prediction… But they are V2 languages—finite verbs are what you find in C, and when SpecCP is filled, there must be something in C. Hence, Wexler’s prediction seems to ...