Is 'not even' at the beginning of a sentence really a modern English phrase?
Is 'not even' at the beginning of a sentence really a modern English phrase? Or is it Old English?
Not even the oceans can separate my girlfriend Eula and me.
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That is OK in modern English. (By the way, "Old English", with capitalised "Old", means Anglo-Saxon, which is a proto-version of English spoken more than a thousand years ago. It is largely not intelligible to modern readers, other than specialist scholars.
- That is OK in modern English.
- (By the way, "Old English", with capitalised "Old", means Anglo-Saxon, which is a proto-version of English spoken more than a thousand years ago.
- It is largely not intelligible to modern readers, other than specialist scholars.
- )
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That is OK in modern English.
(By the way, "Old English", with capitalised "Old", means Anglo-Saxon, which is a proto-version of English spoken more than a thousand years ago. It is largely not intelligible to modern readers, other than specialist scholars. Probably you mean "old English".)
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