San Diego Union-Tribune

It’s OK to boldly go and purposely split an infinitive

DEAR RICHARD: Now retired from 50 years of college teaching and having no more student papers to grade and critique, I address your recent U-T column. I so enjoy, appreciate, and support your language ...
The Guardian

I notice in many newspaper articles these days a frequent use of the split infinitive. When I was at school this form was heavily frowned upon. Is this usage becoming more ...

I don't think there was ever anything objectively wrong with splitting infinitives. I think it arose when prescriptive grammarians laid down that as the Latin infinitive, being one word, is ...
Los Angeles Times

A Word, Please: It’s not possible to badly split an infinitive

Not long ago while editing a series of articles, I noticed that the writer had strange ideas about where to put adverbs. Many were placed before the verbs and some before the subjects, too. “He ...
The Guardian

To, either out of ignorance or boldly and with malice aforethought, insert words into a verb's infinitive form is considered grammatically sinful. Why?

BECAUSE the question has to be read twice to be understood. Andrew Mackay, London N1. IN DEFENCE of bad syntax, every child should be able to quote the following heroes of twentieth century culture ..
The New Yorker

Syntactical Fission: Splitting the Infinitive

Today we're gonna talk about split infinitives. First of all, what is an infinitive? It's a form of the verb that has to in front of it. And it doesn't indicate anything about tense or about person or ...