In fact , this prescriptive rule was based on a clumsy analogy with Latin where you can’t splint an infinitive because it’s a single word , as in facary[ph] to do. Julius Caesar couldn’t have spilt an infinitive if he wanted to.
That rule was translated literally over into English where it really should not apply. Another famous prescriptive rule is that, one should never use a so-called double negative.
Mick Jagger should not have sung, “I can’t get no satisfaction , “he really should have sung, “I can’t get any satisfaction.”
Now, this is often promoted as arule of logical speaking, but “can’t” and “any” is just as much of a double negative as “can’t” and “no.”
The only reason that “can’t get any satisfaction” is deemed correct and “can’t get no satisfaction” is deemed ungrammatical is that the dialect of English spoken in the south of England in the 17th
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