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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Usage of any more

I do not want to meet any more bad people. VS. I do not want to meet bad people any more.

Do you native English speakers feel meaning difference between the sentences?

Thank you so much as always.
  

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Hans51 Do you native English speakers feel meaning difference between the sentences? No. ( I don’t want to meet bad people anymore .

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  • Hans51 Do you native English speakers feel meaning difference between the sentences?
  • No.
  • ( I don’t want to meet bad people anymore .
  • )
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Hans51Do you native English speakers feel meaning difference between the sentences?
No.

(I don’t want to meet bad people anymore.)
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In British English, the spelling anymore is sometimes considered incorrect, and any more is used instead.
(Collins Cobuild Dictionary)
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Yoong LiatIn British English, the spelling anymore is sometimes considered incorrect, and any more is used instead.
(Collins Cobuild Dictionary)
Ah, yes. Come to think of it, I think I remember 5jj saying something about that recently.
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Thank you and "No" means they mean the same, right?
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Yoong LiatIn British English, the spelling anymore is sometimes considered incorrect
In some American English, too. I confine "anymore" to the slangy meaning "these days": "I feel lousy anymore."
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