a grammar question

0Unless I'm missing some trick here, both D and E are grammatically correct, but D contains a much more interesting thought. The logical assumption in paying more for something is that you will get more use out of it. Things like that, however, will often work in reverse. As for E, it is not very interesting, or even very true to our experience, to say that the less one pays for something, th

0 The more you spend, the more you expect to get.02br
00 You may expect it, but you don't always get it. Life is like that, isn't it?02br
00 This is apparently true of bags, because the more you spend on them, the less you get - with respect to being a practical bag, anyway.02br
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00Not exactly a grammar quest

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00In that question, it can not be 00"is00 not it?"00 because by doing that, you will double-negate the sentence, which will make you to be in the position of affirming the original sentence. Two negatives makes one positive. Right or wrong? 0

0 Actually, since the tag is a question, it asks of the main clause whether its reverse might be true. It is merely a matter of following a formula of English. When we tag a statement with a 'tag question', we always ask if the reverse of the statement might be true. It is as if there is an implied "or" just before the tag, so in the normal case it makes no sense not to reverse the posit