
Episode 165: Glamorous Grammar
The History of English Podcast
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English Grammar - The Split Infinitive Rule
English grammar is based on Latin, which means it can't end in a preposition. The rule that says you cannot split an infinitive in English was imposed by grammarians to make English work like Latin. In England, school teachers eventually pushed back against the Latin rules that were being imposed on English. There was such a concern over how grammar was being taught that the government directed elementary schools to stop teaching grammar in 1890.
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