Infinitives

     Have you ever been told not to split infinitives? 

     An infinitive is defined by Grammar in English (http://www.grammarinenglish.com/infinitives/) as follows:

When a verb is in its infinitive state, it has no subject or object. It is used to define the action of the verb without tying it to a specific person. It is a verb acting without a subject. The infinitive is the verb in its purest form. An infinitive should be treated as a single word with a single meaning.

     Splitting an infinitive means to put a word between the two words of an infinitive. I have seen situations in which the split infinitive was less awkward than the corrected form. This is rare. In the example above, the split infinitive could easily be corrected by moving "not" before the word "to."