“You’re going to absolutely love it” (‘going to’ ADVERB INFINITIVE) – English Grammar Profiler

Normally, we are taught to put the adverb after the auxiliary verb ‘BE’:

You‘re absolutely going to love it. (TO LOVE = TO INFINITIVE)
You’re going to absolutely love it. (SPLIT INFINITIVE)

As a native speaker, the first example sounds wrong and the split infinitive sounds right. This intuition is confirmed in the iWeb corpus for what occurs more often:

GOING TO ABSOLUTELY LOVE 259 examples
ABSOLUTELY GOING TO LOVE 87 examples

Splitting infinitives is normal in English!

In the English Grammar Profile (EGP), C2 point 69 in the category of FUTURE is defined:

be going to + a wide range of adverbs before the main verb

Usually, when the EGP defines a grammar point as ‘a wide range of’ something, there are grammar points listed at lower levels. In this case, there are no other examples or CEFR levels for other ranges of adverbs in this position.

These are examples of informal ‘split infinitives’. You might want to avoid this grammar structure in writing.

A top 100 list of adverb + (BARE) infinitive after “going to” from iWeb corpus using the code:

_vb* going to _r* _v?i*

We’ve also added a few real examples to illustrate…

1 ARE GOING TO ABSOLUTELY LOVE (127 = how many found in corpus)

2 IS GOING TO REALLY HELP (98)

3 ARE GOING TO REALLY ENJOY (81)

4 ‘RE GOING TO ABSOLUTELY LOVE (56)

5 IS GOING TO COMPLETELY CHANGE (56)

6 IS GOING TO PROBABLY BE (55)

7 IS GOING TO REALLY BE (54)

8 IS GOING TO ALWAYS BE (52)

9 ‘S GOING TO REALLY HELP (47)

10 IS GOING TO FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE (46)

11 IS GOING TO STILL BE 46 12 IS GOING TO JUST BE 44 13 ‘M GOING TO JUST GO 43 14 IS GOING TO QUICKLY BECOME 40 15 ARE GOING TO REALLY LOVE 39 16 ARE GOING TO SPECIFICALLY TACKLE 39 17 IS GOING TO ACTUALLY BE 37 18 ARE GOING TO STILL BE 36 19 ‘M GOING TO JUST HAVE 35 20 IS GOING TO DRAMATICALLY CHANGE 35 21 ARE GOING TO REALLY BE 33 22 ‘RE GOING TO REALLY ENJOY 32 23 ARE GOING TO ALWAYS BE 32 24 IS GOING TO DRASTICALLY CHANGE 31 25 WAS GOING TO JUST GET 31 26 ‘S GOING TO PROBABLY BE 30 27 ARE GOING TO REALLY HAVE 30 28 ‘RE GOING TO JUST HAVE 29 29 ARE GOING TO JUST HAVE 29 30 IS GOING TO ALSO BE 29 31 IS GOING TO EITHER BE 29 32 IS GOING TO REALLY MAKE 29 33 WAS GOING TO JUST BE 29 34 ‘M GOING TO RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE 28 35 IS GOING TO LIKELY BE 28 36 ‘M GOING TO JUST KEEP 27 37 ‘M GOING TO JUST SAY 27 38 ‘S GOING TO REALLY BE 27 39 IS GOING TO EVENTUALLY BE 27 40 IS GOING TO SOON BE 26 41 WAS GOING TO JUST GO 25 42 ‘M GOING TO JUST DO 24 43 ‘RE GOING TO STILL BE 24 44 IS GOING TO ADVERSELY AFFECT 24 45 IS GOING TO GREATLY INCREASE 24 46 WAS GOING TO JUST HAVE 24 47 ‘M GOING TO JUST LEAVE 23 48 ‘M GOING TO JUST TAKE 23 49 ‘M GOING TO REALLY ENJOY 23 50 ‘M GOING TO REALLY MISS 23 51 ARE GOING TO ALSO BE 23 52 IS GOING TO JUST GIVE 23 53 IS GOING TO NEGATIVELY AFFECT 23 54 IS GOING TO RADICALLY CHANGE 23 55 WAS GOING TO JUST USE 23 56 ‘RE GOING TO JUST KEEP 22 57 ‘RE GOING TO REALLY BE 22 58 ARE GOING TO ACTUALLY BE 22 59 ARE GOING TO EITHER BE 22 60 IS GOING TO REALLY ENJOY 22 61 WAS GOING TO JUST DO 22 62 ‘S GOING TO REALLY MAKE 21 63 ARE GOING TO REALLY GET 21 64 ‘M GOING TO JUST USE 20 65 ‘RE GOING TO PROBABLY HAVE 20 66 ‘S GOING TO COMPLETELY CHANGE 20 67 ‘S GOING TO JUST BE 20 68 ARE GOING TO REALLY HELP 20 69 IS GOING TO DIRECTLY AFFECT 20 70 IS GOING TO EVENTUALLY GET 20 71 IS GOING TO EVER BE 20 72 WAS GOING TO JUST BUY 20 73 ‘S GOING TO ALWAYS BE 19 74 ARE GOING TO ACTUALLY HAVE 19 75 ARE GOING TO REALLY STRUGGLE 19 76 IS GOING TO BEST SUIT 19 77 ‘M GOING TO FUCKING KILL 18 78 ‘M GOING TO JUST PUT 18 79 ‘RE GOING TO REALLY HAVE 18 80 ‘RE GOING TO REALLY LOVE 18 81 ARE GOING TO ACTUALLY USE 18 82 ARE GOING TO EVENTUALLY HAVE 18 83 ARE GOING TO JUST LET 18 84 IS GOING TO DRAMATICALLY INCREASE 18 85 WAS GOING TO JUST MAKE 18 86 ‘M GOING TO JUST STICK 17 87 ‘RE GOING TO ACTUALLY HAVE 17 88 ‘S GOING TO STILL BE 17 89 ARE GOING TO JUST BE 17 90 ARE GOING TO JUST GO 17 91 ARE GOING TO JUST KEEP 17 92 IS GOING TO BASICALLY BE 17 93 WAS GOING TO ACTUALLY DO 17 94 AM GOING TO JUST HAVE 16 95 ARE GOING TO COMPLETELY CHANGE 16 96 ARE GOING TO FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE 16 97 ARE GOING TO JUST LOVE 16 98 ARE GOING TO PROBABLY BE 16 99 ARE GOING TO QUICKLY BECOME 16

100 IS GOING TO ACTUALLY WORK 16

drastically, radically, specifically C2:

fundamentally, respectfully