My 1950s miseducation in English.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. My English teacher was probably in her early 50's at that point,

born before 1920. And she was being blindly adherent to a grammar rule she'd probably learned from someone born in the 19th Century, when that word was commonly used in this country.

That's right up there with the nonsense of never splitting an infinitive. English has a two word infinitive, so of course it's splittable.

There's too much of English grammar that was invented by people who thought Latin was the perfect language and that English should force its grammar into that model.