or pretentious sentences Its important to quickly pickup your room sounds better than Its important to pickup your room quickly That such a sentence in either form should not appear in a college composition or high-school lesson is not the point. Rather,
the issue is deciding which audience will tolerate or be better served by a split in nitive and its informal directness or by an unsplit in nitive and its correctness. See
standard English.More and more, writers, editors, and even grammarians recognize thee cacy of allowing split in nitives at times. If it is
unclear when that can happen, revise or rewrite to eliminate the problem You should quickly pickup your room. It’s important And if a split in nitive does seem acceptable, make sure it is also comprehensible. Don’t allow the intruding adverb or adverbial
phrase to so separate“to” and the verb that the link of comprehension is broken. WRONG To boldly,
unequivocally, and as rationally as possible in the circumstances go where no person
has gone RIGHT Togo boldly, unequivocally, ….” See
clarity, editing, and
revision.Spoke. See
speak.Spoken. See
speak.Sprang. See
spring.Spread, spread, spread. An
irregular verb in its main,
past tense, and past
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