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@Oliver Schick
Au contraire, dear Clive. In this instance, it is more elegant to 'split the infinitive'. (This, by the way, is one of the few things concerning style that everybody seems to have heard about and then applies rigidly without the benefit of the knowledge that while it is applicable some of the time, it isn't always applicable. You see, adverbs are supposed to be words modifying certain other words, and more often than you might expect, they are best placed adjacent to the word they are modifying. It not only aids clarity, but there are also instances in which different positions of the adverb can result in different meanings, and, last but not least, as in 'to boldly go', it can result in a ringing phrase which, if used sparingly, can be a bona fide stylistic device.)