Timeline for Does "not" modify main verb or adverb?
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| May 21, 2021 at 12:07 | comment | added | tea-and-cake | Indeed, I have not money would sound odd but at least in Scotland, I haven't any money is fine. Maybe have not sounds too archaic, but the contraction makes it OK. FWIW, in Scottish English you can say things like I've an honest face which would sound weird in English English (you'd say I have an honest face or I've got an honest face). | |
| Feb 2, 2020 at 8:50 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | We don't say I have not money, but we can say I haven't time to [do that] (at least, we can in British English). | |
| Feb 2, 2020 at 0:24 | comment | added | user31782 | If not can modify both types of verbs, why, in modern English, I have not money or He runs not fast are wrong? I think in today's English, it only modifies auxilary verb. Oxford says, Used with an auxiliary verb or “be” to form the negative. | |
| Feb 1, 2020 at 13:53 | history | answered | Kate Bunting | CC BY-SA 4.0 |