Thread: which adverbs can't have a 'not' after them?
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Old 28-Sep-2006, 05:28
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Default Re: which adverbs can't have a 'not' after them?
Are these unnatural?
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I sometimes can't.
I sometimes don't.
I already don't.
I already don't know. Why are still asking me?
Please don't tell him. I'm already not going to tell him.
Please don't tell him. I'm already not telling him.
I sometimes still don't.
I sometimes still can't.
He has again not finished it.
He again hasn't finished it.
I at first didn't believe what they said.
I at first did not believe what they said.
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Other than that, it seems to me that "not always" sometimes can mean "often not", not just "sometimes not".
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