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Ye Thu Posted 11 years ago
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Dear Grammarians, I don't quite understand the writing style of the following sentence.Please explain it to me. Thanks in advance.
"I do not only love my mum, I also love my dad."
"I do not only love my mum, I also love my dad."
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) First, the word "mum" suggests this is British dialect, rather than American English ("mum" is almost never used in the US). The lack of a contraction of "do not" suggests a deliberateness in speech, which is apparently characteristic of the British idiom. The splicing of two sentences with a comma is also apparently British technique.
- ) First, the word "mum" suggests this is British dialect, rather than American English ("mum" is almost never used in the US).
- The lack of a contraction of "do not" suggests a deliberateness in speech, which is apparently characteristic of the British idiom.
- The splicing of two sentences with a comma is also apparently British technique.
- The content here is a little unusual.
- Apparently the speaker is saying that he would be assumed to favor his mom exclusively, which suggests a male speaker.
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(I'm a native English speaker in the US, and have never been to the UK or known any Brits, so I'm doing considerable guessing here.) First, the word "mum" suggests this is British dialect, rather than American English ("mum" is almost never used in the US). The lack of a contraction of "do not" suggests a deliberateness in speech, which is apparently characteristic of the British idiom. The spl
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