I don't think there was ever anything objectively wrong with splitting infinitives. I think it arose when prescriptive grammarians laid down that as the Latin infinitive, being one word, is ...

Nairobi — English has no formal infinitives. We recognise one only by the word "to" before a verb. But since the word is separate from the verb, why is it wrong to "split" the infinitive? Our high ...

Today we're gonna talk about split infinitives. First of all, what is an infinitive? It's a form of the verb that has to in front of it. And it doesn't indicate anything about tense or about person or ...