infinitive
noun
infin.
infinitives
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pluralof infinitive.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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English teachers were once satisfied if they could prevent their pupils from splitting infinitives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2015
This happens at all magazines, of course; at Slate, we recently stopped capitalizing, in headlines, to in infinitives: “To Be or Not To Be” became “To Be or Not to Be.”
From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2015
In that language, infinitives were an unsplittable single word: to split is dilaminare.
From Time ● Aug. 1, 2014
QL: It would not worry me if Russians split infinitives.
From The Guardian ● May 11, 2013
As Copperud wrote, “Shall, then, seems well on the way to extinction, much like the hapless Scot.” split infinitives.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
