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Carter Lee Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Are these having a same sentence?

Hi.

Are these sentence having a same meaning?

1. If I did not have a car, I would not travel a lot.
2. If I had not a car, I would not travel a lot.

My intention is that I have a car now.
  

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Carter Lee Do these sentence s have the same meaning? , don't know , didn't have ). The uncontracted forms usually come off as more formal.

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  • Carter Lee Do these sentence s have the same meaning?
  • , don't know , didn't have ).
  • The uncontracted forms usually come off as more formal.
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Carter LeeDo these sentences have the same meaning?
I imagine so, but in present-day English non-modal verbs are normally negated by the addition of "do not/don't" or "did not/didn't" (e.g., don't know, didn't have). The uncontracted forms usually come off as more formal.
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Although (2) would be understood to mean the same as (1), it is very stilted and archaic-sounding.
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Thanks sir,
But if you don't mind, would you please more let me know why you be felt like that?
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Three or two centuries ago, English verbs were still usually negated without using the auxiliary do—for example, I know not rather than I do not know. Verbs continue to be negated this way in German (e.g., Ich weiß nicht), but not in standard modern English. So, unless you want to sound like a character from a 200-year-old novel, I strongly suggest
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