By Negations, Regards

Herman Melville - The Confidence Manhttp://www.online-literature.com/melville/confidence-man/10"You would not hint that the colored cravats would be so bungling as to lose, and the dark cravats so dextrous as to cheat? Sour imaginations, my dear sir. Dismiss them. To little purpose have you...

Einmalige Narizsse wrote:Hi! Hi there...I've got question... --> I've got a question...I've heard (in the USA):A: I'm hungryB: I'm either <-- No. You really heard this? Hmm...Is it correct? No. Or I have to say "So am I". <-- This is ok. Also: "Me too" or "I'm angry too".What about...

I am trying to formulate guidelines for learners of English as a foreign language with regards the use of may/might/could to express possibility. It seems to me that you can use these three modals (almost) interchangeably when expressing possibility. For example, 'Where's Mary?' 'I'm not sure....

I think you all are missing one thing; it's the very basic question. The definition of operator. Up till now no one has defined what operators actually are. Operators are verbs with special properties as explained in the article I cited for you above. Some authors just call them...

I will take you up on your words. "I've never seen things like 'must not have contained' in any grammar book." Buy a decent book then. 'Must have been' exists so its negation: must not have been exists too. Replace the word "been" for "contained". Before you give up English revise...

Hello everybody, Yes, the issue is singular or plural as many questions have been posted in the past and so will be. I searched this sort of any previous question but whether or not I am a bad internet surfer I coudn't find what I am going to mention. Elemental but very ambiguous. -...

Future Tense + UNTIL + Point in Time The structure shown above works differently, depending whether the verb is interpreted as a continuing situation or as an event. Some verbs can only be interpreted one way; some can be interpreted both ways. Situations: waiting, being away 1) I'll wait...

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',...

It's "...do you not like". I suppose the answer is that the negation of "to like" is "not to like". So, in the present tense, the negation of "like" is "not like". The correct word order is therefore "...do you not like". However, as you quite rightly point out, it *IS* abbreviated to "don't...