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Guest Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

Double negative

Would this sentence be considerd a double negative?

"The purpose was to make it impossible for the employee not to get the absolute latest information"

And, secondarily, is it bad English?
  

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I would revise it as follows: The purpose was it make it possible for the employee to get the very latest information.

  • I would revise it as follows: The purpose was it make it possible for the employee to get the very latest information.
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I would revise it as follows:

The purpose was it make it possible for the employee to get the very latest information.
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Whoops -- there was a typo in my last post. It should have read:

The purpose was to make it possible for the employee to get the very latest information.

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