Timeline for Question sentences involving negation
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 9:11 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Dec 15, 2014 at 18:34 | history | edited | F.E. |
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| S Mar 29, 2014 at 7:32 | history | bounty ended | mosceo | ||
| S Mar 29, 2014 at 7:32 | history | notice removed | mosceo | ||
| Mar 27, 2014 at 5:04 | comment | added | user230 | Well, the question was quite different when I answered it. It asked about "Does he not know?" versus "Does not he know?", and the main difference between these is that the latter is ungrammatical. | |
| Mar 26, 2014 at 18:16 | comment | added | QuentinUK | "If you tickle us, do we not laugh?", in a well known play by Shakespeare. | |
| Mar 26, 2014 at 17:00 | answer | added | mcalex | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 23, 2014 at 12:54 | comment | added | oerkelens | So you are really asking about when to use contracted negatives? I'd say you simply use "doesn't he know" when you would use "he doesn't know", and you use "does he not know" when you would write "he does not know". But that has little to do with question sentences. | |
| S Mar 23, 2014 at 12:44 | history | bounty started | mosceo | ||
| S Mar 23, 2014 at 12:44 | history | notice added | mosceo | Improve details | |
| Mar 23, 2014 at 12:37 | history | edited | mosceo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 22, 2014 at 10:59 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglishLL/status/447326700104613888 | ||
| Mar 21, 2014 at 21:03 | comment | added | Peter Shor | Ngrams expands "Doesn't he know?" to "Does not he know?", despite the fact that the second form is not used much and is generally considered ungrammatical. You can't trust Ngrams here. "Does not he know?" actually appears relatively commonly in 19th century literature, but I suspect that was because contractions were avoided then in written language, and that it usually represents a spoken "Doesn't he know?". | |
| Mar 21, 2014 at 14:11 | answer | added | BobRodes | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 21, 2014 at 13:17 | answer | added | oerkelens | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 21, 2014 at 13:16 | answer | added | user230 | timeline score: 12 | |
| Mar 21, 2014 at 12:47 | answer | added | Maulik V | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 21, 2014 at 12:43 | history | asked | mosceo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |