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For my money, this one was nailed definitively by James T Kirk decades ago:
To boldly go where...
This is incorrect, but it sounds a lot better than To go boldly where...
Cap'n Jim was in the wrong here because for any verb in its infiintive form (to go, to see, to run etc) the verb should not be separated from its 'to' by any other word. If you want to know why, you can read the history of 19th century pedants on Wikipedia.
However, this is the sort of issue that causes paper cut fights among grammarians and we are writing for businesses here. Anything that adds impact is fair game, as long as it doesn't set you apart as a pariah.
I would probably draw the line at some point, so
They decided to all really pull together
is probably clumsy.
They all decided to really pull together
is better because the emphasis you are trying to make is 'really pull' rather than 'all pull'.
Avoiding the split infinitive is difficult here without weakening the sentiment. You would have to write it like this:
They all decided really to pull together. |
