In Nouns^x, Negatives^x

The talks on the Linguists Forum are preserved in a Japanese site Q Hello I m a graduate student at a university in Japan In English class at Japanese high schools students were told to put the before the name of musical instrument But I often come across musical instruments without the like play...

Hi Context After a party a woman is chatting with a friend about the party she went to the previous day I have met vary many people at the party More natural is I met a lot of people at the party Very many does not work here Many is mainly used in the negative I didn t meet very many people at...

These are ok for instance as examples of didn t don t have much X to infinitive 1 I didn t have much incentive to go to work today 2 I don t have much work to do And you could say He didn t have much desire to walk upstairs or he didn t have much reason to walk upstairs or he didn t have much...

Hello As you said ish and like are both used as a suffix to form an adjective from a noun And you are quite right that ish gives a negative sense to the adjective OED says X ish is usually an adjective to mean having the bad or objectionable qualities of X e g boorish foolish swinish But some...

Hi I ve been thinking through this problem and would appreciate some input both suffixes ish and like turn a noun into an adjective but there is a difference seen in the meanings each of them give to words If one compares childish and childlike it is obvious that childish has a more negative...

The main clause I believe is considered higher than the subordinate clause ghosts exist The deep structure may be I believe that ghosts do not exist But once Neg raising is applied the structure becomes without changing the meaning I do not believe that ghosts exist think and want operate the...

Hi again In my view In my opinion From my point of view Buenos Aires is less expensive than many cities in Europe This may be I m not sure about the use of may be here it could also be This is perhaps because our currency is cheaper than the euro or the British pound As a South American capital...

Hi people Correcting is giving me a really hard time and I d appreciate it if you could take some minutes to read this since you ve been so helpful Here s the original version In my point of view Buenos Aires is less expensive than many cities in Europe This is may be because our currency is...

1 My little brother would not turn down the radio volume in the morning MY possessive adjective LITTLE DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVE BROTHER noun WOULD modal auxiliary NOT NEGATIVE PARTICLE TURN main verb DOWN adverb particle THE definite article RADIO noun used as an adjective VOLUME noun IN...

Hello I ll put my two cents on the questions 1 and 2 1 There aren t enough biscuits on this plate Biscuits is a countable noun and so it can t go with too much A lot biscuits is not good it should be a lot of biscuits Some biscuits can t be used in a negative sentence 2 I wanted to go out this...