The NOAD defines nor as: used before the second or further of two or more alternatives (the first being introduced by a negative such as neither or not) to indicate that they are each untrue or each do not …

As Henry Higgins observed in Pygmallion, the best grammarians are often those who learned English in school as immigrants. My parents, who were first-generation Americans in the early 20th century, …

The sentence with not between to and the verb (do in this case) is a special case of the split infinitive construction. According to CGEL, 2.3 Secondary verb negation, p. 803, these two sentences are …

You can certainly say . . . it's not OK to not learn from them. However, bear in mind that there are still people around who mistakenly believe that such a construction is a split infinitive and should be …

Apr 1, 2013 · A frequent variant is Not to say that, which allows one to say something while denying one did. Not to say you're wrong, but did you compare the figures with the chart?

The header of psyco.sourceforge.net states: High-level languages need not be slower than low-level ones. Why use need not instead of do not need? What does it mean? Also, why no to before be?

Tautologies, redundancies and contradictions are not necessary and can be paraphrased. The word "may" connotes a possibility, and it's negation "may not" is in essence equivalent; selection between …

Sep 26, 2020 · I brought my luggage but I didn't bring my passport. Which one of the following is equivalent? I brought my luggage but not my passport. I brought my luggage but my passport.

Apr 23, 2017 · As a programmer I have always assumed that using != as meaning not equal to when writing text (usually on the internet) came from programming languages. Is this true or is the origin …

Sep 7, 2010 · Not only are there students in the room, but also parents. (here, the parents are there part is not quite required, so you don't have to say but parents are also there because it's implied.)