The phrase "a kind of split" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or condition that resembles a division or separation in some way.
Example: "The project faced a kind of split between the creative and technical teams, leading to misunderstandings."
Alternatives: "a sort of division" or "a type of separation."
Commenting on Lincoln's facial structure, he said, "More than most faces, his had a dimorphism, a kind of split face.
FitzSimons explained that a cop has a kind of split consciousness: half of his brain may be engaged in a conversation, but the other half is on alert.
Eisenhower's grandson David writes in a new memoir that Ike "developed a kind of split personality about the most controversial speech of his life," downplaying its significance to old military and business friends while professing pride in it to others.
Orchard Street is eight blocks in length, runs like a spine from Division Street at the southern end to East Houston Street at the northern end, and has a kind of split personality.
John Riggs, Paris Schizophrenia and the Republicans Regarding "American schizophrenia upends the New Start treaty" (Views, Dec. 1): James Carroll deplores the ignorance of Senate Republicans but displays his own when he says schizophrenia "assumes a kind of split".
This raises the fascinating possibility that when we talk to ourselves a kind of split takes place, and we become in some sense multiple: it's not a monologue but a real dialogue.
The production highlights the neat irony of this by a kind of split-screen effect.
There's a curious duality in this, a kind of split-consciousness, as if actor and character coexist in performance.
The coordination of images, sound and action is superb, and many sequences are staged simultaneously, creating a kind of split-screen effect.
But what's most surprising about New Jersey is how in such a blue, labor-dominated state, Democrats and union members seem to be cracking under the pressure of the state's tax burden, revealing a kind of split-personality disorder.
At its heart, the plan reportedly proposes a kind of split-level sovereignty for the contested holy area in Jerusalem that is known as the Temple Mount to Jews and as the Noble Sanctuary to Muslims.
