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TheRealTMA said:
Rule 6 is 19th C. Startrek resolved the issue.
Rule 3 is depatable debatable.
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Rule 6 also has a comment from George Bernard Shaw "It is of no consequence whether he decides to go quickly or to quickly go or quickly to go. The important thing is that he should go at once". (On an editor at the London Times who did not like split infinitives).

There are lots of rules, missing from the table, I was taught in school; never end a sentence with a preposition. And don't start one with a conjunction.
 
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Beano said:
Rule 6 also has a comment from George Bernard Shaw "It is of no consequence whether he decides to go quickly or to quickly go or quickly to go. The important thing is that he should go at once". (On an editor at the London Times who did not like split infinitives).

There are lots of rules, missing from the table, I was taught in school; never end a sentence with a preposition. And don't start one with a conjunction.
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