“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
“It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.” MenWritingLiteratureCapableOriginalsStealingEntitledDiscretionPlagiarism Book:Essays and Lectures Source: Essays and Lectures
“Perhaps all one can really hope for, all I am entitled to, is no more than this: to write it down. To report what I know. So that it will not be possible for any man ever to say again: I knew nothing about it.” KnowsMenWritingReportsEntitled Author:André Brink
“When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel.” NeedsWritingRomanceCertainWishFeltNovelFashionMaterialsClaimsAssumingEntitledLatitude Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne