By Negations, Nouns

Dear Mirium, I'm sorry for that breathless post. Are you any better now? Have you caught some Z's? You didn't misunderstand my question at all, this is what I need. I understand the meanings of this ambiguous sentence, and I was trying to analysize it from a grammatical point of view. I'm...

Pastel, I have a headache already! ~L~ Let's go step by step I agree with what you said about the first pair of sentences (me/I do). Your other example, "I don't like him as much as you" can certainly be ambiguous; the two interpretations you posted are possible. I agree with your analysis of...

I don't like him as much as you. Dear Mirium, here is my analysis. 1-a. She doesn't sing as well as me. 1-b. She doesn't sing as well as I do. In 1-a, an object pronoun is used after 'as', according to Michael Swan, this is an informal style, whereas in 1-b, subject+verb is used after 'as',...

~girding on my armour~ I'm coming to rescue my mother tongue from the evils of translation engines!! ~chuckle~ I've never liked those translation programs, and I see I have good reasons for it! "Hola a todos; mi español es muy pobre, sé lo que nnecesito escribir en mi propio idioma pero no puedo...

To negate is to answer in the negative, to deny and can be expressed in different ways: - by negating the verb: He did not pay. - by negating the subject: Noone paid. - by negating the object: He paid nothing. a) You can negate e.g. by using - adverbs: not, never, nowhere, noway,...