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Ecopsy Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

His music isn't really to my taste.

Is that sentence above different from this one, 'His music is really not to my taste'? Or the latter is not right at all, people just don't speak this way.

Thank you in advance.
  

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Both are right. The second one ('really not') is a stronger expression than the first one ('not really'). The word groups are 'really [not to my taste]' and 'not [really to my taste]', because negation affects everything to its right in the sentence.

— Mister Micawber

  • Both are right.
  • The second one ('really not') is a stronger expression than the first one ('not really').
  • The word groups are 'really [not to my taste]' and 'not [really to my taste]', because negation affects everything to its right in the sentence.
  • Here: 'really [not to my taste]' = very much not to my taste = not to my taste at all 'not [really to my taste]' = not very much to my taste = somewhat not to my taste
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Both are right. The second one ('really not') is a stronger expression than the first one ('not really'). The word groups are 'really [not to my taste]' and 'not [really to my taste]', because negation affects everything to its right in the sentence. Here:

'really [not to my taste]' = very much not to my taste = not to my taste at all

'not [really to my taste]' = not very much
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Thank you, Mr Micawber. I've got the sense of security I wanted when using these two different expressions. It's great.
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