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Park sang joon Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

The position of "not"

1. I can use the inversion of normal word order, but not in a simple structure.
2. I can use the inversion of normal word order not in a simple structure.

I'd like to know whether I can use both #1 and #2.
Thank you in advance for your help.
  

Top answer

#2 doesn't read correctly.

— GPY

  • #2 doesn't read correctly.
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#2 doesn't read correctly.
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Thank you, GPY, for your answer. Emotion: smile
How about this? :"I quivered not in a muscle."
Is it OK because "not
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park sang joonHow about this? :"I quivered not in a muscle."
This is not a common or everyday structure. If this was written by an educated native English writer then it is a literary or poetic sentence. Your sentence is too unpoetic in its content, and the first part is too long, for this structure to be viable.
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Thank you, GPY, for your continuing support.Emotion: smile

If this was written by an educated native English writer then it is a l
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park sang joonBy and chance, in a negative sentence, can I not displace any other adverb or adverb phrase but "not" so that I can make "not" modify only the reduced range?
I'm afraid I can't figure out what you are asking here.
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I'm so sorry for my poor English; I hope I take to English skill.Emotion: sad

In a negative sentence, can I transplace "not" so that I ca
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park sang joonFor example, can I use "not" so as to modify only "simple sentence" like the following?: "I can even write not simple sentences."
No. The possible interpretation is that "not" modifies "simple", but it is too much of a stretch in this case.
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Thank you, GPY, very much. Emotion: smile

but it is too much of a stretch in this case.
Then I'd like to know a p
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park sang joonThen I'd like to know a possible case.
a not insignificant amount
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I'm so sorry; but I'd like to ask you one more thing. Emotion: sad
Then, in a long sentence, can't I translocate "not"?
And I don't want
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