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Because standard English does not have negative concord, that is, double negatives are not used to intensify each other, the language makes frequent use of certain NPIs that correspond in meaning to negative items, and can be used in the environment of another negative.
A double negative is a construction occurring when two forms of grammatical negation are used in the same sentence. This is typically used to convey a different shade of meaning from a strictly positive sentence ("You're not unattractive" vs "You're attractive").
In propositional logic, the double negation of a statement states that "it is not the case that the statement is not true". In classical logic, every statement is logically equivalent to its double negation, but this is not true in intuitionistic logic; this can be expressed by the formula A ≡ ~(~A) where the sign ≡ expresses logical equivalence and the sign ~ expresses negation.
Whether to use who or whom in various contexts [13] The use of less or fewer with count nouns [14] Double negatives as negative concord – e.g., "We don't need no education" [15] Certain double modals – e.g., "You might could do it" – not considered standard, but used for example in Southern American English [16] Double copula [17] – e.g.,
Honestly, you would never know the difference. That cat is more of a daredevil than my own, four-legged ones. He leaps around her house, balancing on bannisters and traversing high ledges.
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Nvidia declined to comment on the Bloomberg report. The company is under investigation in China over suspected violations of the country's anti-monopoly law, a probe widely seen as a retaliatory ...
From January 2008 to April 2011, if you bought shares in companies when W. Ann Reynolds joined the board, and sold them when she left, you would have a 31.8 percent return on your investment, compared to a -8.9 percent return from the S&P 500.