Split Infinitives? ENOUGH ALREADY!

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Apr 6 06:11:47 EST 2002


At 9:43 PM -0500 4/5/02, Polycarp66 at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 4/5/2002 9:15:51 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>wmhboyd at aol.com writes:
>
>>
>>Since the subject has been raised. Are there split infinitives in the
>>Greek N. T.?

Um soetwas definitiv fest-zu-stellen ... 

You might find instances of "tmesis" involving adverbial "prefixes" and the
actual infinitives in Homer and, by way of imitation, in later hexameter
poets. But that's not a legitimate "split infinitive" in any case, and no,
we don't find any such thing in the GNT.

>LOL!  I thought Glenn dealt with that question.

Could we please call a halt to this discussion of "normative" English grammar?
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