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Moon7296 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Double negation
I watched a short video clip in Youtube.
I was wondering if the sentence I heard is grammatically correct.
"I`m not at all knocking korean man at all"(this is quoted by URL below)
http://www.youtube.com/user/expatkerri#p/u/32/0JxNnVUA2w8 (5:09) 5min 09sec
Regardless its correction, I`d appreciate it if other examples of this type of English(double negation?) are given
and,, Though I used "it"(underline) in the sentence above I want to know why "it" in the sentence is necessary. (& what`s the difference when not using it.) sorry for the silly question -.-;z
I was wondering if the sentence I heard is grammatically correct.
"I`m not at all knocking korean man at all"(this is quoted by URL below)
http://www.youtube.com/user/expatkerri#p/u/32/0JxNnVUA2w8 (5:09) 5min 09sec
Regardless its correction, I`d appreciate it if other examples of this type of English(double negation?) are given
and,, Though I used "it"(underline) in the sentence above I want to know why "it" in the sentence is necessary. (& what`s the difference when not using it.) sorry for the silly question -.-;z
Top answer
" This is nothing to do with double negatives. She just repeats "at all" to emphasise it. "appreciate" (in this sense) is a transitive verb, so it needs an object.
- " This is nothing to do with double negatives.
- She just repeats "at all" to emphasise it.
- "appreciate" (in this sense) is a transitive verb, so it needs an object.
- "it" is a kind of dummy object.
- You can also say "I'd appreciate other examples of this type of English", in which case "other examples" is the object.
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She says: "I'm not at all knocking Korean men at all." This is nothing to do with double negatives. She just repeats "at all" to emphasise it.
"appreciate" (in this sense) is a transitive verb, so it needs an object. "it" is a kind of dummy object. You can also say "I'd appreciate other examples of this type of English", in which case "other examples" is the object.
"appreciate" (in this sense) is a transitive verb, so it needs an object. "it" is a kind of dummy object. You can also say "I'd appreciate other examples of this type of English", in which case "other examples" is the object.
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moon7296 "I`m not at all knocking korean man at all"As MrWordy says, this is not double negation, but it's certainly bad form to repeat "at all" in this way. I'll see if I can find examples of similar repetitions which are not so objectionable.
Double negation would be, "I don't see no end to this problem." It would be acceptable in some language
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Dummy it occurs in these patterns.
(I) like it when ...
(I) would like it if ...
Verbs: adore, appreciate, ?enjoy, like, love, ?relish, (can't) stand, (can't) tolerate, ?treasure, abhor, ?deplore, detest, dislike, dread, hate, ?lament, regret, resent.
Those with question marks are probably less used in the patterns shown.
CJ
(I) like it when ...
(I) would like it if ...
Verbs: adore, appreciate, ?enjoy, like, love, ?relish, (can't) stand, (can't) tolerate, ?treasure, abhor, ?deplore, detest, dislike, dread, hate, ?lament, regret, resent.
Those with question marks are probably less used in the patterns shown.
CJ
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