The sentence with not between to and the verb (do in this case) is a special case of the split infinitive construction. According to CGEL, 2.3 Secondary verb negation, p. 803, these two sentences are …

Oct 1, 2015 · At the linguistics conference, there were no / not / non- native speakers of Esperanto. They're all grammatically "valid", but they all mean different things - and pragmatically / idiomatically, …

Sep 26, 2020 · is not a complete sentence, we are left wondering what is different about the passport. A complete sentence might be "I brought my luggage but my passport is still in the hotel safe ". 'But' is …

You can certainly say . . . it's not OK to not learn from them. However, bear in mind that there are still people around who mistakenly believe that such a construction is a split infinitive and should be …

As Henry Higgins observed in Pygmallion, the best grammarians are often those who learned English in school as immigrants. My parents, who were first-generation Americans in the early 20th century, …

Oct 22, 2017 · The "Be not" construction is simply more poetic. It hearkens back to lines like "Death be not proud" from John Donne in the 17th century, or Shakespeare's "Be not afraid of greatness." In …

11 "not uncommon" is not necessarily the same as common. Compare the following examples: 1-0 is a common final score in soccer (it happens all the time) 8-7 is an uncommon final score in soccer (it …

The header of psyco.sourceforge.net states: High-level languages need not be slower than low-level ones. Why use need not instead of do not need? What does it mean? Also, why no to before be?

Apr 1, 2013 · A frequent variant is Not to say that, which allows one to say something while denying one did. Not to say you're wrong, but did you compare the figures with the chart?

May 18, 2012 · The biggest difference between the two is how many syllables it takes to say them: It*is*n't vs Its*not This obviously matters a whole lot for rhythm and rhyme. Sometimes (though …