“It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or if avoiding the separation creates a confusing ambiguity or patent artificiality, you are entitled to happily go ahead and split!” IfsWritingSometimesDesirePracticeAvailableSeparationShadeAcceptableSplitsEntitledAvoidingConfusingAmbiguityPatentsSplittingArtificialityInfinitive Book:Lederer on Language: A Celebration of English, Good Grammar, and Wordplay Source: Lederer on Language: A Celebration of English, Good Grammar, and Wordplay
“The one affectation I have forced on the publisher... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter.” KnowsWritingUseSeemsClearLettersMarkScriptsSentencesFoolishDevicesSpellsPublishersConfusingPrintedPunctuationPunctuation Marks Author:Andy Rooney