Hela  +  70974 Sun, 30 Jan 05 10:37 AM Dear teachers, I have some hesitation about the following sentences. Would you please tell me which ones are incorrect? 1) He is such a rude man to talk to. 2) No one ever talks to such a rude man. 3) No one ever talks to him because he is such a rude man (grammatically correct?) 4) I have too little time to help you. 5) I haven't too much time to help you. Many thanks, Hela Hela Joined on Mon, Nov 15 2004 Tunisia Regular Member 831

	just the truth  +  70986 Sun, 30 Jan 05 12:23 PM 1) He is such a rude man to talk to. OK 2) No one ever talks to such a rude man. OK 3) No one ever talks to him because he is such a rude man (grammatically correct?) OK 4) I have too little time to help you. OK 5) I haven't too much time to help you. Yes, sometimes, but not often, is used in negatives to intensify. It means something like , but 'very' is more common or even just, I haven't much time to help you. With the inclusion of the negative most often would shift to a , as in, I don't have very much time to help you. just the truth Joined on Mon, Dec 27 2004 Regular Member 849 Negatives

	Mister Micawber  +  71006 Sun, 30 Jan 05 02:19 PM A minor but interesting sidetrip, JTT: how much do you think #1 needs an exclamation point? I feel it would improve the 'naturalness' of the sentence, but I have never pursued the effect of this end punctuation. Certainly all intensifiers to do not elicit exclamations, but this one seems like it needs it here. Mister Micawber Joined on Wed, Aug 4 2004 Yokohama Veteran Member 30,788 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master-- that's all.' Punctuation

	just the truth  +  71012 Sun, 30 Jan 05 02:37 PM You know, for the life of me, I don't know, Mr M. I can honestly say that I've only ever heard when they shouldn't be used. I use them, but I don't know how to explain why or when. I guess it's a feeling, you've got one now that 1 should get one. If I'da [:>] written it myself, I may well have added one. just the truth

	CalifJim  +  71022 Sun, 30 Jan 05 04:45 PM Why stop at a exclamation point? Use an emoticon! Hee, hee, Mr. M! CalifJim Joined on Mon, Aug 2 2004 California Veteran Member 22,391 "There are no facts, only interpretations" - Nietzsche

	Hela  +  71047 Sun, 30 Jan 05 06:42 PM Dear teachers, 5) I haven't too much time to help you. Yes, sometimes, but not often, is used in negatives to intensify. It means something like , but 'very' is more common or even just, I haven't much time to help you. With the inclusion of the negative most often would shift to a , as in, I don't have very much time to help you. But isn't "I haven't too much time..." a negative sentence ? It sounds wrong to me but I don't know why. Can I also say: 6) He is too rude to be talked to. (OR - He is too rude to talk to ?) 7) He is too / so rude a man to be talked to. Many thanks, Hela PS. I really don't understand the codes you mentioned for quotes, italics, etc. can't you create icons for that? It would be much easier! Hela Negatives

	CalifJim  +  71072 Sun, 30 Jan 05 09:55 PM Hela, Copy this post as if it were the message in a reply to someone's post, remove the spaces within the 's, then click "Preview" to see how quotes, etc. work. This appears in a blue box. underlined italics bold You should get the result shown in the next post. Jim CalifJim

	CalifJim  +  71073 Sun, 30 Jan 05 09:57 PM This appears in a blue box. underlined italics bold CalifJim

	Hela  +  71960 Thu, 03 Feb 05 11:03 PM Dear teachers, Are the following sentences correct ? 1) He’s stingy ENOUGH for his wife to leave him. (intensifying adverb) 2) My uncle has ENOUGH money to buy an aeroplane. (determiner and not an intensifying adverb ?) Many thanks, Hela Hela Verbs, Adverbs, Determiners