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Tip # 113:  Avoid inserting an adverb between the word "to" and the verb.  This is called "splitting an infinitive." 
    For example:

    Weak:  I found it impossible to even see a foot ahead of me.
    Better:  I found it impossible to see even a foot ahead of me.

    Weak:  John tries to carefully do his work.
    Better:  John tries to do the work carefully.

Here is a sample from a newspaper clipping that was describing an AFP photo from the American Museum of Natural History.  Please choose the description of what error was committed:
a) Comma splice
b) Incorrect use of quotation marks
c) Incorrect use of an apostrophe
d) Dangling construction
The Newspaper clipping:
"This photo of the "fighting dinosaurs" fossils shows an overhead view of a protoceratops, left, that apparently died locked in combat with a velociraptor in Mongolia's Gobi Desert more than 80 years ago."

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