#WritersCoffeeClub 4/10 What's something other writers swear by that you just don't get?
Never splitting infinitives in English. The rule came from Latin, where an infinitive is a single word. English infinitives are TWO words, and Latin lost all its prestige centuries ago!
@dancingtreefrog
also I'm not convinced that the "to" is actually part of a Latin-style infinitive; it seems to behave more like an English preposition; as tho every verb that can sensibly take another verb as an object actually has a related phrasal verb: like to, want to, able to.
(cuz all learners of English agree, what the language needs is more phrasal verbs!)
David W. Jones
EWR KSC