getting your point over in a natural and easily-understood manner.
Yes... I'd have said that this rule should take precedence over all over pints of grammar.
However, I also like my sentences to sound nice, and I find the way split infinitives sound is often much less pleasant than if you'd moved the words around a bit.
(I know there's a typo in the above but I liked it, so I left it there)
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Date: 2003-03-26 04:58 am (UTC)Yes... I'd have said that this rule should take precedence over all over pints of grammar.
However, I also like my sentences to sound nice, and I find the way split infinitives sound is often much less pleasant than if you'd moved the words around a bit.
(I know there's a typo in the above but I liked it, so I left it there)