"Split infinitive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of an infinitive it should not be separated from the other part by an adverb, as, "to hastily think," for hastily to think, or, to think hastily. Condemnation of the split infinitive is now pretty general, but it is only recently that any one seems to have thought of it. Our forefathers and we elder writers of this generation used it freely and without shame—perhaps because it had not a name, and our crime could ...
— Write It Right - A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults • Ambrose Bierce |
