[DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about GRAMMAR/LIT TERMS - StudyStack [PAR] THE PROHIBITION ON SPLITTING THESE MAY DERIVE FROM THE FACT 
THAT IN LATIN THEY'RE ONE WORD, INFINITIVES. A CLAUSE THAT 
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"The population is expected to more than double in the next ten years". .... This is 
supported by the fact that split infinitives are often used as echoes, as in the 
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emulate Latin, or that the original meaning of a word is the only correct one? ... In 
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are a class of word used to express the relationship ... Some of these groundless 
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if it has so many words from Latin? ... The prohibition caught on, perhaps 
because of its simple-mindedness, even ... Since to isn't part of the infinitive, 
however, nothing is being split, and the whole idea of splitting an infinitive is 
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subject. ... TABULA (Latin, "tablet," plural tabulae): The Latin and medieval term 
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sense! ... the simplest form of a verb, is one word in Latin and thus can't be split. ... 
to the King James version of the Bible is stuffed with these "terminal ... none is 
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piece of voodoo syntax since the prohibition of clause-final prepositions. ... (Yes, I 
know that there can be shades of difference in meaning between these choices; 
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the fact that dictionaries not only differ from one another as to which words they 
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Question: The prohibition on splitting these may derive from the fact that in Latin they're one word
Answer: Infinitives