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Carter Lee Posted 10 years ago
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can you help me why does like this use a sentence? "We know not its depth"

Hi.

When I came run across the internet, I found that like sentence "we know not its depths".

But in my general thought , that has to be wrote like this " we don't know its depth"

But the first one is came from the movie scription. So maybe there are any different reason i thought. But I dont't so wold you let me know how to write like that?
  

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We know not its depths. This is an archaic form of English, used today occasionally in poetry. Don't use it in normal, everyday English.

— Clive

  • We know not its depths.
  • This is an archaic form of English, used today occasionally in poetry.
  • Don't use it in normal, everyday English.
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We know not its depths. This is an archaic form of English, used today occasionally in poetry.
Don't use it in normal, everyday English.
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When I came run across was surfing the internet, I found that like a sentence like "we know not its depths".

But in my general thoughts, that has to be written like this " we don't know its depth"

But the first one is came from the movie script. So maybe there are any different reasons.
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AlpheccaStarsWhen I came run across was surfing the internet, I found that like a sentence like "we know not its depths".But in my general thoughts, that has to be written like this " we don't know its depth"But the first one is came from the movie script. So maybe there are any different reasons. But I don't know so would you let me know how to write like that?This is a
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