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Originally Posted by Pulpmeister
Why shouldn't we split the infinitive?
English is not an inflected language. It usually changes cases by using additional words, such as "to", "on", "from", before the verb.
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English is inflected. We add -ed for the simple past. Adding to, on, from etc removes tense and creates a gerund, which, like an infinitive, has no tense. As I understand it, using prepositions produces (and replaces) an effect similar to cases (word order) in German, and is a borrowing from French. I agree that we tend not inflect verbs, but use auxiliary verbs instead.