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Search phrase: negative

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Twelfth NightTN V.i.20kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives,kisses, if your foure negatiues make your two affirmatiues,
The Winter's TaleWT I.ii.274Or else be impudently negativeOr else be impudently negatiue,

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aughtanything, [with negative word] nothing
negativedenying, refusing to believe

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Themes and Topics

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Exclamations...dern english there are more expressing negative emotions (contempt disdain disgust i...
... are grouped separately regrets negative attitudes alas 3h6 v i 109...
Negatives...mplex word-play observes ‘if your four negatives make your two affirmatives ’ (tn v ...
...aid to be ‘bad grammar’ to use a double negative within a single clause in standard engl...
...rean english we often find sequences of negative words whose sole function is to intensi...
...whose sole function is to intensify the negative meaning of an utterance (this is how ...
...e not got no money neither ) a range of negative forms is involved such as no not non...
...ere and nothing as well as words with negative implication such as deny when richard...
... of hastings’ imprisonment he uses two negatives to make his point ‘you may deny that ...
Responses...when the stimulus utterance contained a negative word and yea and nay were used when n...
... both of these usages can be seen (the negative words are highlighted) ...
...fferent play in each case there is no negative word in the stimulus utterance ...
... lord both new and old negative usages can be seen in quick succession ...
Withal and withal... positive (‘in addition’) occasionally negative (‘nevertheless’) the simple form is al...
Frequently Encountered Words (FEW)... aught (n ) anything [together with a negative word] nothing ham iv iii 60 [claudius ...

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Word FamilyWord Family GroupWords
NEGATIONBASICnegative adj, negative n

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