By Negations

Native speaker here. :)I know this question was asked three years ago, so this answer won't help the original poster; but since I found the topic in a web search, maybe my opinion will help someone else down the line.I agree with the other posters. "Have yet to be discussed" is...

No. The negation turns it around. "That the assignment was really impossible" is what you never thought. That's a big difference.I think you want to say: There was no time at which I had the opinion that it was (really) not possible.I don't think you want to say: There was...

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...

Yes, I know but what I needed is to re-phrase the sentnece ..simplify it..I mean If I were asked to do so, I would find it a little bit difficult. Here it goes..while David Canter5 argues that the right-wing groups merely cash in on soccer violence, rather than instigate it. = While David...

It's a matter of tricks of negation. The wind would have to be truly bad if it did not blow anything good to anybody.= ... if it did not blow anybody anything good. = ... if it blew nobody anything good. (not anybody becomes nobody)SoA wind that does not blow anybody any good is a wind that...

This is an interesting idea, but it doesn't seem to always work. For example, I would say "The sun will rise and the birds will start singing" (rather than "The sun will rise and the birds start singing") even if the birds start singing the instant the sun rises. To me,...

Here are some examples The main point is to explain the correct answerThe sentences are little-bit childisch ;they are some modified sentences. I am afraid that my explanations seems to be a little childisch, too. So please help me how to turn it into the right explanation. Mary was real angry...

Something to chew on:THE NOTION OF STANDARD SPOKEN GRAMMAR The term ‘standard grammar’ is most typically associated with written language,and is usually considered to be characteristic of the recurrent usage of adult,educated native speakers of a language. Standard grammar ideally reveals...

Believer,I think you're getting confused because many of your readings are Biblical. whosoever that, and to a lesser extent, whatsoever that are limited to the old-style language of the Bible -- or to the versions of it which were written long ago.Whosoever that shall believe shall be...

Mr. Woodham is simply saying that the presence of a negation in the if-clause does not change the basic idea behind the third conditional, namely, that it contains counterfactual statements -- statements that are the "opposite" of what actually happened. If I had seen the approaching...