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Moon7296 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
negative question?
1.what woman having ten coins and losing one
would not light a lamp and sweep the house,
searching carefully until she finds it?
Q. I thought the woman in the sentence would not light a lamp because of "not" in the sentence. But now i understand it is the opposite right?
What do you call that kind of question? And do you use such sentence when you speak?
And how else can you say instead of that?
would not light a lamp and sweep the house,
searching carefully until she finds it?
Q. I thought the woman in the sentence would not light a lamp because of "not" in the sentence. But now i understand it is the opposite right?
What do you call that kind of question? And do you use such sentence when you speak?
And how else can you say instead of that?
Top answer
what woman having ten coins and losing onewould not light a lamp and sweep the house,searching carefully until she finds it? I don't see what the coins have to do with her not lighting the lamp and sweeping the floor. Your sentence makes no semantic sense.
- what woman having ten coins and losing onewould not light a lamp and sweep the house,searching carefully until she finds it?
- I don't see what the coins have to do with her not lighting the lamp and sweeping the floor.
- Your sentence makes no semantic sense.
- Perhaps you need to rewrite it in another way.
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moon72961.what woman having ten coins and losing onewould not light a lamp and sweep the house,searching carefully until she finds it?I don't see what the coins have to do with her not lighting the lamp and sweeping the floor. Your sentence makes no semantic sense. Perhaps you need to rewrite it in another way.
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1. What woman having ten coins and losing one
would not light a lamp and sweep the house,
searching carefully until she finds it?
Q. I thought the woman in the sentence would not light a lamp because of "not" in the sentence. But now i understand it is the opposite right?
What do you call that kind of question?
would not light a lamp and sweep the house,
searching carefully until she finds it?
Q. I thought the woman in the sentence would not light a lamp because of "not" in the sentence. But now i understand it is the opposite right?
What do you call that kind of question?
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grammarfreakI don't see what the coins have to do with her not lighting the lamp and sweeping the floor. Your sentence makes no semantic sense. Perhaps you need to rewrite it in another way. ..you maIt's rather formal and old-fashioned in style, but it makes perfect sense. It is, as Clive said, a rhetorical question.
What woman having ten coins an
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A negative question can be a rhetorical question that expects a negative answer.
Who doesn't like chocolate? No one. (Everybody, of course, likes chocolate.)
Who wouldn't jump at the chance to travel in space? No one. (Everyone wants to travel in space.)
What woman in those circumstances wouldn't search for the lost coin? No woman would do that. (Every w
Who doesn't like chocolate? No one. (Everybody, of course, likes chocolate.)
Who wouldn't jump at the chance to travel in space? No one. (Everyone wants to travel in space.)
What woman in those circumstances wouldn't search for the lost coin? No woman would do that. (Every w
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Uh...I didn't make the connection between her losing the coin and trying to light the lamp so that she could sweep the floor. Even that, it still sounded odd to me. Or maybe it is me.
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It's actually a quotation from the Bible (Luke 15:8).
Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?
[King James Version]
Did somebody say 'old-fashioned'?
Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?
[King James Version]
Did somebody say 'old-fashioned'?
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This quote is from the Douai-Rheims version, published around 1750.
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ozzourtiold-fashionedI don't consider the grammar old-fashioned, and I don't consider the sentiment that we try to find things that we've lost old-fashioned. Just saying. To put myself "on record" on the topic.
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CalifJimCatholic then, I presume?Yes, the Catholic equivalent to the KJV, and written with the KJV as a source of inspiration.
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