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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
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At all

We never got the opportunity to like, or even hate the characters. I would hope that the film would at least make some characters clichéd enough to hate, but not here. These characters were so one dimensional I was surprised they got actors at all. I don't remember a single character from this movie, other than the detective and the teacher (David and Dourif). Sadly the film is too boring to even remember characters enough to hate.

I think in my example, as "surprised" is a negative word "at all" could have been used. am I right?
Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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park sang joon "surprised" is a negative word It's not negative, but it makes the following clause non-assertive, which allows 'at all'. CJ

  • park sang joon "surprised" is a negative word It's not negative, but it makes the following clause non-assertive, which allows 'at all'.
  • CJ
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park sang joon"surprised" is a negative word
It's not negative, but it makes the following clause non-assertive, which allows 'at all'.

CJ

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