| 21. | Even split infinitives are " sometimes " acceptable.
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| 22. | The argument about split infinitives is another example.
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| 23. | "To really be " is a split infinitive.
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| 24. | Technicalities aside, what we call a split infinitive has been around a lot longer than its detractors.
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| 25. | :: : You are missing the point, which is that split infinitives are not analogous to placeholders.
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| 26. | For details of this, see split infinitive.
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| 27. | In the 19th century, some grammatical authorities sought to introduce a prescriptive rule against the split infinitive.
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| 28. | "The objection to the split infinitive has never had a rational basis " ( Merriam-Webster, 1994 ).
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| 29. | Oxford is perhaps one of the final places to admit the split infinitive is here to stay.
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| 30. | The split infinitive has never ( to my knowledge ) been the subject of a Broadway musical .;)
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