Re: Conjunctive Inversion

Padraic Brown wrote:
It's a little complicated by being a negative. Make it positive :

Do you know anything about English?

*You know anything about English?

The latter is assertive, and so won't accept ``anything.''

Well, it's plain you don't know much of anything about English. In the
last month or so, I've counted now about _seven_ glaring examples of
how you, Ron, fail to grasp basic facts about how the English language
works and what is allowed in it.

That's why, mostly, I don't ask linguists anything. They're no good at it.

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Ron Hardin
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On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.
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