In Negations^x

Hello again, Pastel You are definitely complicating my winter holidays! ~L~ Let's have a look at this concept of "negation" in relation with "I don't like him as much as you do". You posted: Back to our original sentence, there is a nagative auxiliary that makes me relate its function to form...

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',...

"Need" in its negation means 'not having the necessity to' and acts here as a modal auxiliary. Modal auxiliaries are always followed by an infinitive without to and do never take an -s for 3rd person: he will go to school / he won't go to school he can go to school / he can't go to school he may...

Miriam, The book is by Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey Pullum. The capital letters in square brackets refer to a list of criteria on the preceding page concerning auxiliary verbs vs. modal auxiliaries. Here's the list: AUXILIARY PROPERTIES Primary verb negation. Subject-auxiliary inversion ...

There are three men walking in a straight line. As they walk along they see a hat seller who has 5 hats - three of them are white and two of them are black in color. As they cross the hat seller -he just randomly tosses 3 hats and it lands exactly on their heads. The last among the three men...

~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...

I have been told, though have never actually read it myself, that the bulk of the prescriptive "rules" we follow today - were penned by Bishop Lowth, in his massively influential : Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762), hence you will find Shakespeare writing things which you think are...

I’d be interested to know if the section of text I’ve copied from a psychology journal (below) rings true for you regarding the nature of courage in the terms mentioned previously. For Camus, the nihilistic void functions as an inescapable generator of absurdity, undermining every human...