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When to use the ‘to’ infinitive correctly in a sentence

Towards the end of a discourse that many people might have followed, on a local television station last Saturday, the anchor said; “Let’s put this matter to bed rest”. That takes us back to last ...
Los Angeles Times

A Word, Please: Split infinitives: the mistaken rule with a catchy name

Reader Don in Los Angeles County wrote recently with a question about a well-known grammar issue called a “split infinitive.” “I learned about them 50 years ago and I am somewhat sensitive about them ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

Logical Subjects of Infinitives

An "infinitive" in English is a verb preceded by the word to, as in to study. Many English verbs can be followed by a grammatical structure that contains an infinitive and is known as an "infinitive ...
BBC

Learning English

Gloria Fulvia from Italy writes: Do I say Schools are for learning or Schools are to learn? I would like to know the grammar of to + infinitive and for + -ing form when I'm talking about purpose. I ...
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 ...