In his latest Language Log post Geoff Pullum has mentioned my recent post on split infinitives. I have added the following footnote to my post:
Geoff Pullum has mentioned this post here. He says:
What [Harvey] shouldn't do is tell students or clients that "split infinitives" should be avoided for reasons having to do with respecting English grammar, because that's simply false.
Pullum will no doubt be pleased to have my categorical assurance that I don’t do that; my position is after all only implicit in my above comment:
nobody who has studied the English language professionally … can see anything wrong with split infinitives.
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