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Rpsh Posted 12 years ago
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Brenda didn't find the movie at all interesting.

The 'at all' here is an adverbial, and this sentence mean Brenda isn't interested in the movie at all,right?
  

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The 'at all' here is an adverbial, and this sentence mean Brenda isn't interested in the movie at all,right? Not exactly. In the first case, she saw the movie and found it very boring.

— Mister Micawber

  • The 'at all' here is an adverbial, and this sentence mean Brenda isn't interested in the movie at all,right?
  • Not exactly.
  • In the first case, she saw the movie and found it very boring.
  • In the second case, she has not seen it and does not wish to.
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rpsh Brenda didn't find the movie at all interesting.The 'at all' here is an adverbial, and this sentence mean Brenda isn't interested in the movie at all,right?
Not exactly. In the first case, she saw the movie and found it very boring. In the second case, she has not seen it and does not wish to.
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How to express these two kind of meanings? Is it about intonation or making pauses in reading unpunctuated writings? Could you write them down?
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rpshHow to express these two kind of meanings?
The two meanings are expressed in the two different sentences you posted. It is in those structures, not in tone or punctuation.
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