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MrPernickety Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

A question on negation

Hi, everybody !

Could you tell me if the following dialog is natural:

Mother: Go upstair, on the double! You are not going outside!
Child: Am to, am to ! Out of my way !

(More importantly, I am curious if the underlined part is ok)

Thanks a millon !
  

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Hi, Yes, it is. Not a sweet child. Clive

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Hi,
Yes, it is.
Not a sweet child.

Clive
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Hi, Clive
Thank you !
CliveNot a sweet child.

Clive

Tell me about it !
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I'm not sure if it was a simple typo, or an error, but "go upstairs" is correct, not "upstair." (If it was just a typo, then never mind!)
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MrPernicketyAm to, am to !
Very informal contradiction, used after a negative. Used mostly by children, I believe.

You don't know how to ...
Do too, do too!

You weren't there when ...
Was too, was too!

Larry won't be ready when ...
Will too, will too!

(If you happen to know French, it's used in the same si
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Hi,
Something I forgot to mention.

The child doesn't care about grammar, of course, but in grammar terms what is being said is '"I am, too!"
Thus, the abbreviation is better written as "Am, too! Am, too!"

Clive
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too? Really?

I thought it might be the to of a missing infinitive!

But now that I think of it, too sounds right. I'll go back and edit my previous response.

Thanks.

CJ
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