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Where Did The Split Infinitive Originate?

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Where Did The Split Infinitive Originate?

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It is likely that the split infinitive originally entered the English language under the influence of French; at any rate, it first appears in the time after the Norman Conquest when English was borrowing very widely from French. Germanic languages (including Old English) do not permit an adverb to fall between an infinitive and its preposition.

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