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Hanuman_2000 Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Negation

Hello,

1.The dress was too striking not to attract attention.

We generally use 'to' with 'too ... to' in order to show the excessiveness of something in a negative meaning.

The use of 'not' before 'to' has some special meaning which I am not able to undestand.

Could anyone please explain it?

Thanks.
  

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hanuman_2000 We generally use 'to' with 'too ... to' in order to show the excessiveness of something in a negative meaning . Similarly, we use too...

— Persian Learner

  • hanuman_2000 We generally use 'to' with 'too ...
  • to' in order to show the excessiveness of something in a negative meaning .
  • Similarly, we use too...
  • not to in a positive way, according to your interpretation.
  • As a matter of fact, we use this structure to show that there is so much of a particular quality that makes something impossible.
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hanuman_2000We generally use 'to' with 'too ... to' in order to show the excessiveness of something in a negative meaning.
Similarly, we use too... not to in a positive way, according to your interpretation.
As a matter of fact, we use this structure to show that there is so much of a particular quality that makes something impossible.
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This we can write under this grammatical rule
Too+adjective+to+verb
e.g....he is very tired so he can not do his work.
we can write it like this..He is too tired to do his work..
so for your sentence it could be like...The dress was too striking to attract attention..if m wrong anyone plz correct.
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