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Originally Posted by Casiopea  here time is negated; it's in focus. |
How can time be negated if it's the negation is not used contrastively such as in "I didn't see him
yesterday." or "I saw him
not yesterday."? For me, I very often move time adverbs, frequency adverbs, or other types of adverbs to a position before the negation just to prevent them from being negated, such as saying "Yesterday I didn't see him.", instead of "I didn't see him yesterday.", because in my native language, if those types of adverbs are negated, it usually sounds very strange and may not even make sense. They are the many adverbs that I listed in this thread. For example, In my native language, saying "It is
not in fact possible." or "I
don't even like it." does not make sense at all; instead you have to say "...
even don't ... " and "...
in fact not ...".