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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
Vocabulary

Negation Interpretation

a. With no job, he would be happy.

b. With no job would he be happy.

Although I know the structural difference between a (constituent negation) and b (sentence negation), I can't get what the b means because I failed to paraphrase b.

e.g.,

I definitely didn't speak to him.

= It's definite that I did not speak to him.

I didn't definitely speak to him.

=It's not definite that I spoke to him.

With no job, he would be happy.

=If he has no job, he would be happy.

With no job would he be happy.

= ?

  

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anonymous With no job would he be happy. There is no job that he would be happy with. ) CJ

— CalifJim

  • anonymous With no job would he be happy.
  • There is no job that he would be happy with.
  • ) CJ
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anonymousWith no job would he be happy.

There is no job that he would be happy with.

(It's an odd phrasing, though, so I don't recommend using it as a model for your own writing.)

CJ

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