In Contractions^x, Negations^x

My answer is the same as Yankee's, except that I'm fairly indifferent to whether contractions are used or not. must not is a bit more clear than mustn't, but I'd accept either. I think you and Kooyeen are looking for something like these: She was not allowed to go to the disco. She was...

Paco2004 wrote: CalifJim wrote:"Can not" (two words) is never acceptable when the intent is to negate the modality.Sometimes we English learners from non-English speaking countries have to read historical documents like below. "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that...

~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...