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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

The order of "don't" in a specific sentence

0Helloooo folks!02br
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00I am a teacher of English in Spain. I would appreciate a lot if you could tell why sentence 1) below seems to be more correct than sentence 2).02br
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001) But I 01b00don't02b00 suppose you remember and old woman like me?02br
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002) But I suppose you 01b00don't02b00 remember and old woman like me? 02br
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00In Spanish we say the translation of sentence 2), but in a book I found 1), and according to a search on google 1) seems to be more common too.02br
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00Could you give me a grammar explanation for that? 02br
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00Thanks a million.02br
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00Love everyone.0-
  

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00They are both fine, and in this case quite common, but native speakers tend to front the negation to the matrix verb, as in:02br
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01b01i00I don't think they are coming02i02b00 (vs 01i00I think they aren't coming02i00)02br
01b01i00She doesn't want me to smoke02i
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