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Pleasehelp Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Please correct me

I'm not trying to be difficult, doesn't mean I can't be meticulous, right?

Why isn't it don't mean?

When I flip it around it's I don't not I doesn't. Right?
  

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You asked for an answer from "anybody," so here I go. I don't understand your question very well. I think you want to know why DOESN"T follows "I'm not trying to be difficult." Well, "I'm not trying to be difficult" is singular. What pronoun would you use to substitute for ""I'm not trying to be difficult"? Right, you would use "it." Think of it this way: The FACT (that I'm not trying to be
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The sentence is anomalous to begin with. You need something like this:

I'm not trying to be difficult, but that doesn't mean that I can't be meticulous, right?

You were missing some words that make it a well-formed sentence. Now you have that doesn't, not I doesn't.

CJ

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