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Ticce Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Any longer

I have heard an opinion that it's not idiomatic to use the present simple with ANY LONGER. The opinion was of a native speaker's. For example,


Doesn't Marry paint any longer? WRONG

Isn't Marry painting any longer?


Does it hold water? Maybe it's only in interrogative sentences?

  

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They both sound OK to me.

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They both sound OK to me.

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TicceANY LONGER

'any longer' and 'anymore' are not used in assertions, but they are common in non-assertive clauses, e.g., in negations and interrogatives. 'anymore' may be heard as more natural by some speakers because they hear 'any longer' as too formal.

Mary paints any longer. No.
Mary doesn't paint any longer. OK.
Does Mary paint any l

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