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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
"It is not that I want to go now."
"It is not that I want to go now."
Which one is the same grammar rule we can apply to the example sentence?
1) It is you that I love. ( It-that cleft )
2) It is not true that I went there. ( it, placeholder )
I think that we can use #2 to explain the example. What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much as usual and have a good and safe day.
Which one is the same grammar rule we can apply to the example sentence?
1) It is you that I love. ( It-that cleft )
2) It is not true that I went there. ( it, placeholder )
I think that we can use #2 to explain the example. What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much as usual and have a good and safe day.
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Anonymous I think that we can use #2 to explain the example. That seems fairly reasonable. The shade of meaning is not precisely "not true that", however.
- Anonymous I think that we can use #2 to explain the example.
- That seems fairly reasonable.
- The shade of meaning is not precisely "not true that", however.
- It's not that I want to go now is more like The message that I want to convey is something other than that I want to go now.
- What I mean is something other than that I want to go now.
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AnonymousI think that we can use #2 to explain the example.That seems fairly reasonable. The shade of meaning is not precisely "not true that", however. It's not that I want to go now is more like
The message that I want to convey is something other than that I want to go now.
What I mean is something other than that I want to
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