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Old 05-24-2010, 04:59 PM
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Originally Posted by LucyKKG View Post
Yep. That's what I was trying to demonstrate. "I like potatoes to eat." Ich mag Kartoffelen essen.
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I got into a pretty heated debate the other day as to whether the use of a split infinitive was incorrect. I strongly believe [see how much better that is than any alternative?] . . . .
But "I strongly believe" isn't a split infinitive; "I was led to erroneously believe" would be a split infinitive.

A split infinitive is the seperation of "to" and the rest of the infinitive form of the verb, as in "to boldly go where no man has gone before." The grammatically "correct" construction would be "to go boldly where no man has gone before."
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