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He Did Come Home? [closed]
Is this:
1 He did come home late yesterday.
a sloppy variation of:
2 He came home late yesterday.
because of poor editing under adverse writing conditions? Could the writer have ...
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Does “not that you would know” make sense in English?
Today I was teasing a colleague of mine who keeps forgetting things.
I said "You forgot because it's Friday today... Well, not that you would not forget any other day". I am not sure if it was ...
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What's the negation of “I used to be”? Surely not “I didn't used to be”?
What is the negative form of "I used to be"? I often hear "I didn't used to be" but that sounds awfully wrong in my ears.
