To Boldly Go...with Split Infinitives
Moving along from word confusion, let's start talking about verbs! Yay! Today's verb exploration is about split infinitives... You’ll get divided responses on these little buggers since strict grammarians will say “never, ever split an infinitive,” and easier going ones (like me) will say it’s okay for informal writing, but less so (or not at all) for formal work. To be or not to be? Eliza Shakespeare likes to expansively write about spaceships. The question here is whether or not this sentence is grammatically correct, to which I must sadly say "No." While Eliza is ready to excel at a spaceship adventure story, we must address the split infinitive first. What is a split infinitive and why is it a big deal? The basic thing to understand is that an infinitive equals TO + a verb (to run, to yell, to look). When you split the infinitive, you’...
