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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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More and more people in this area are not using computers.
0 I'd appreciate it if someone would answer my question. Thanks in advance. 02 br
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00 Are the following 2 sentences correct? If so, what's the difference? 02 br
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00 A: Fewer and fewer people in this area are using computers. 02 br
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00 Are the following 2 sentences correct? If so, what's the difference? 02 br
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00 A: Fewer and fewer people in this area are using computers. 02 br
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0 They are OK, but are opposites: 02 br 02 br 01 i 00 A: Fewer and fewer people in this area are using computers. 02 br 02 i 02 br 02 br 01 i 00 B: More and more people in this area are not using computers. 02 i 0-
- 0 They are OK, but are opposites: 02 br 02 br 01 i 00 A: Fewer and fewer people in this area are using computers.
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0 They are OK, but are opposites: 02 br
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01 i 00 A: Fewer and fewer people in this area are using computers. [Increasingly smaller numbers of people ... 02 br
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01 i 00 B: More and more people in this area are not using computers. [Increasingly larger numbers of peple ... 02 i 0-
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01 i 00 A: Fewer and fewer people in this area are using computers. [Increasingly smaller numbers of people ... 02 br
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01 i 00 B: More and more people in this area are not using computers. [Increasingly larger numbers of peple ... 02 i 0-
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0 Hi, Marius. B is a Negative sentence. (--- not using --) They are not opposites. 02 br
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00 So what's the diffrence? 0-
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0 Perhaps he saw "not" as "now." 02 br
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00 They express the same thing but the second one makes your reader work a lot harder to understand it! 0-
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00 They express the same thing but the second one makes your reader work a lot harder to understand it! 0-
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0 －Do you mean B is bad because "More and more" isn't in a negative scope of "not", that is, "More and more" seems to express Affirmative while "not using computers" expresses Negative? 0-
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00 I just think the first focuses on "using computers", and the second on "not using computers". So which is better depends on what you are talking about, although they mean the same. For example, "More and more people are not using any Microsoft software" would be perfect if you were talking about a new philosophy and people who embrace the idea of "not using anything that
00 I just think the first focuses on "using computers", and the second on "not using computers". So which is better depends on what you are talking about, although they mean the same. For example, "More and more people are not using any Microsoft software" would be perfect if you were talking about a new philosophy and people who embrace the idea of "not using anything that
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