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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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To: jbe who wrote (1593)11/24/1998 4:57:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (3) of 4711
 
There might be one way to unsplit the infinitive in your example. It involves "cheating" on another level however. We can replace "enter" v.t. with "enter v.i., giving us an unsplit form that looks and sounds rather good, at least to me. :-) It does pass Steven's "read it aloud" test.

The queen told the page to enter quietly into the chamber where the king was sleeping.

Btw, I think that in the prologue to each The Next Genitalia episode, hearing Patrick Stewart's commanding voice sing out "to go boldly where no one has gone before" would have sounded... well, right.

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