New posts in negation

What is the difference between "The army didn't have any" and "didn't have no" in "It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier"?

negation double-negation register negative-concord

Do the following negations mean the same thing?

meaning differences negation negative-raising

Question tags — "did you" vs. "didn't you"

meaning questions negation subject-verb-inversion question-tags

Please, don't - I'm not

tenses negation aspect

What is the correct way to use "neither" and "nor" in a sentence together?

meaning word-choice grammaticality negation disjunction

"It isn't" vs. "it's not"

contractions negation

The construction of "Known but to God"

meaning phrases conjunctions negation

Should I use 'or' or 'nor' after a negative statement?

word-choice grammaticality conjunctions negation or-nor

Is the use of a hyphen between "non" and an adjective strictly necessary?

adjectives hyphenation negation

When should we use proximity rule in "either/or", and "neither/nor"?

grammatical-number conjunctions negation verb-agreement disjunction

Why do not we ask negative questions without a contraction on the not after the verb?

grammar questions negation contractions

"There are no comments" vs. "There is no comment"

grammatical-number verb-agreement negation there-is quantifiers

English questions and negation with *do* in syntax

negation syntactic-analysis linguistics do-support

Why use "need not" instead of "do not need to"?

meaning grammar negation modal-verbs semi-modals

"It really doesn't matter" v "It doesn't really matter"

differences word-order negation syntactic-analysis adverb-position

What's the negation of "I used to be"? Surely not "I didn't used to be"?

negation do-support used-to

The grammaticality of "that don't impress me much"

grammaticality verbs negation verb-agreement do-support

Order of "not" with infinitive

negation infinitives

"Whether or not" vs. "whether"

grammaticality conjunctions negation emphasis

Why is “cannot” spelled as one word?

orthography negation modal-verbs spacing