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Old Feb 22, 2008 | 10:35 am
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Originally Posted by yellow77
That isn't a split infinitive. An example of a split infinitive would be 'to promptly notify', which people who worry about these things feel should be 'to notify promptly'. (The basis is that in Latin and Greek, the infinitive ('to notify') was a single word ('notificare'), not two, so if, like Victorian-era schoolteachers, you thought English should be modeled on Latin, you did the best you could and didn't split 'to notify' with another word.)

'Will be promptly notified' is just a complex verb form. There aren't afaik any rules about splitting this, even though in Latin this was also a single word, so logically if you worry about one you should worry about the other too.
Sure, but the principle is, as you say, the same (at least according to my ninth grade grammar instructor).
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