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 …

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 …

Sep 26, 2020 · I brought my luggage but I didn't bring my passport. Which one of the following is equivalent? I brought my luggage but not my passport. I brought my luggage but my passport.

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 …

In a word, yes. Some people make distinctions between them, and some people used to condemn the ones with to not (for reasons that were never clear, but that's faith for you), but in fact the …

Sep 9, 2020 · But that presumption does not remove the dissonance or the possibility of misunderstanding. In the expression there is or ought to be a rule that where we are dealing …

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 …

Sep 14, 2018 · As it stands "Not this one" is not a sentence because it has neither a subject nor a verb. If someone says "Not this one" they are usually using a shortened form of a full sentence …

Jun 17, 2025 · Not any cannot normally be used with subjects, so no and none of appear instead: No brand of cigarette is harmless No tourists ever came here No one (also no-one in BrE) …

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 …