By Negations, Intonations

Teleostomi wrote: Everybody doesn't trust the truth. I know this sentence to mean for example, "John doesn't trust, Mary doesn't trust, Tom doesn't trust." (Complete negation)But could the sentence also possibly mean "John doesn't trust, Mary doesn't trust, but Tom trusts."? (Partial...

MrPedantic wrote: Yes they are similar, but... When you want to say that it is required something to be done regularly you use have to He has to do his homework after school every day. Cf. however 1. You must take three of these pills every day after lunch. Yes but in this case it is the...

Hi, Roro! Cleft sentences are useful in writing beacue it's not easy to use intonation to stress written language. we cannot put ONLY or into the scope of negation. I partially disagree. Yes, ESL teachers(or others) can use underline, bracket, or whatever devices to hightlight the emphasis...

JTT, or other native speakers of English, let me ask this. If I said "I think he won't come" instead of "I don't think he will come", would you think like "I see Taka puts some sort of emphasis on the nagative fact that he won't come", as JTT says? Or does it simply sound a bit...

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,...