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Marrion
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 Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 3:27 am Post subject: All ~not and Not ~all |
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[1] All of them will not come.
[2] Not all of them will come.
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Do two sentences have the same meaning?
If not, I want to know the reason. |
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IanT
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| Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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[2] Not all of them will come. This means that some will come, but not all.
[1] All of them will not come. If taken literally, this would mean that none of them will come. BUT ... if that was what you meant, you would never say [1], you would say: "None of them will come" !
So, a native speaker, reading [1], would probably assume you were trying to say [2] and you just hadn't found the most natural way.
Hope helps,
Ian
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Marrion
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| Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 12:57 am Post subject: ^^ |
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Thank you for your good explanation!!!!!!!!!!!
May you be in happiness, ALAWYS!!!^^ |
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