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Viceidol Posted 18 years ago
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Can I say"You can not buy it at any store."?
Hello
I was trying to use simply "not" to negate the sentence "You can buy it at any store." And it turned out to be this:
I was trying to use simply "not" to negate the sentence "You can buy it at any store." And it turned out to be this:
You can not buy it at any store. (It means "no stores have the thing you want to buy".)
Could you tell me is this correct? Please help me, thank you very much!Top answer
Hi, Yes, it's OK. More common is 'in any store'. Clive
- Hi, Yes, it's OK.
- More common is 'in any store'.
- Clive
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Thnak you, Clive. By the way, is there a more idiomatic way to express the same meaning?
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Hi,
What you said is OK. You might also say -
You can't buy it in the store.
Stores don't carry it.
Clive
What you said is OK. You might also say -
You can't buy it in the store.
Stores don't carry it.
Clive
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