diff --git a/lib/ansible/parsing/splitter.py b/lib/ansible/parsing/splitter.py
index ed5ea55e818..4849d082658 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/parsing/splitter.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/parsing/splitter.py
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ def split_args(args):
             # to the end of the list, since we'll tack on more to it later
             # otherwise, if we're inside any jinja2 block, inside quotes, or we were
             # inside quotes (but aren't now) concat this token to the last param
-            if inside_quotes and not was_inside_quotes:
+            if inside_quotes and not was_inside_quotes and not(print_depth or block_depth or comment_depth):
                 params.append(token)
                 appended = True
             elif print_depth or block_depth or comment_depth or inside_quotes or was_inside_quotes: