not
/nɑt/ adverb A1- Negates the meaning of the modified verb. · Did you take out the trash? — No, I did not. I do not think it was my turn, was it?· Not knowing any better, I went ahead.
- To no degree. · That is not red; it's green.· It's not you, it's me.
- Used to indicate the opposite or near opposite, often in a form of understatement. · That day was not the best day of my life. (meaning the day was bad or awful)· It was not my favorite movie of all time. (meaning the speaker dislikes or strongly dislikes the movie)
- Used before a determiner phrase, a pronominal phrase etc. to convey a negative attitude (e.g. denial, sadness, anger) towards something. · Not another rainy day!
- Used before a non-finite clause (especially a gerund-participial clause) or less commonly a determiner phrase to ironically convey some attitude (e.g. surprise, incredulity, amusement, or embarrassment) towards something. · Not me writing example sentences again.
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The news of the arrival of the Pharaon had not yet reached the old man, who, mounted on a chair, was amusing himself by training with trembling hand the nasturtiums and sprays of clematis that clambered over the trellis at his window.
“No, no, my dear Edmond—my boy—my son!—no; but I did not expect you; and joy, the surprise of seeing you so suddenly—Ah, I feel as if I were going to die.”
Spencer what made them red and she said she didn’t know and for pity’s sake not to ask her any more questions.
“How could that bring me into trouble, sir?” asked Dantès; “for I did not even know of what I was the bearer; and the emperor merely made such inquiries as he would of the first comer.
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