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Omar Ahmed Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

A puzzling question

I know that the negative form of 'in order to' is 'in order not to'. What is the negative form of 'to'?

Can I say 'I study hard to not fail''? If this is wrong, what should I say?

  

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This is indeed a puzzling question. I'm a native speaker in the US, and I'm having a hard time answering it. My interpretation of this is that it is puzzling because there is no negative version of these sentences.

— Anonymous

  • This is indeed a puzzling question.
  • I'm a native speaker in the US, and I'm having a hard time answering it.
  • My interpretation of this is that it is puzzling because there is no negative version of these sentences.
  • " But there is no negative version of this sentence.
  • " But this is not the negative version of some positive statement.
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This is indeed a puzzling question. I'm a native speaker in the US, and I'm having a hard time answering it. My interpretation of this is that it is puzzling because there is no negative version of these sentences. That is, you say:


"I study hard in order to pass my courses." But there is no negative version of this sentence.


And you say: "I study hard so that I don'

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Omar AhmedI know that the negative form of 'in order to' is 'in order not to'. What is the negative form of 'to'?

not to

Omar AhmedI study hard to not fail No. This doesn't work for me.

Affirmative: I study hard to fail. (Nonsense, but grammatical.)
Negative, first

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