What is the difference between would not and did not?  For example:     I called my girlfriend but she wouldn't stop.   I called my girlfriend but she didn't stop.
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I'm reading an article about two pets rescuing their owners. After the cat managed to wake up the mother, she tried to wake up other members but they wouldn't wake up.     Cathy tried to tell her husband and son to leave the house, but they wouldn't wake up.   Why wouldn't and not didn't?   (I checked possible duplicates but they weren't convincing at all. Besides, none of the answers were confirmed. One said would is used for permission and another said it's for emphasis!)
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"Name three things that, if you were told were part of the job, would cause you to not take the position. "   I've just come across this sentence while reading the news.   Question is: Why to not is used instead of not to? This usage in this way imposes different meaning?
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Is haven't supposed to mean something I may still do and didn't not?  Can I use didn't for something I might still do?
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When do we use each of the following?     I don't want to ...      I won't want to ...      I wouldn't want to ...
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What's the difference between these two phrases?
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I've just seen the following sentence on a band's biography:     Had it not been for a studio theft, the band might never have made that song.   Then I was wondering if I can change this sentence to:     If it were not for a studio theft, the band might never have made that song.   Is the second sentence correct? Are they interchangeable?   Thanks in advance.
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Usually when I want to deny something I will say I didn't do anything  However, lately I watched some movies in which the people sometimes said  I didn't do nothing    They use no instead of any, like I don't have no problem. I think this sounds cool.  Can I use it in my daily chatting?
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This has been bugging me for some time; I tried to look for previous questions here but my language tools may not be sharp enough to phrase my query correctly so please forgive me if this has already been posted here.  Speakers of English as a foreign language tend to incorrectly use the word "would" when using some particular subjunctive constructs. Here is  (this time presumably by a native English speaker):     If that would happen, you won’t be alone.     (One correct version being "If that happens, you won't be alone".) I have detected this in speakers of a number of languages so I feel this is more likely to be a feature of the English language itself than a carry-over from their native language.  I have a faint intuition that this is because , and it certainly doesn't help that , but I can neither make that precise nor even really phrase a concrete question. Can someone shed some light on this?    Edit: just to provide some real-world examples of what I mean, here is one example taken from :     Publish or Perish is designed to empower individual academics to present their case for research impact to its best advantage. We would be concerned if it would be used for academic staff evaluation purposes in a mechanistic way.   This is obviously ungrammatical (to me), but I'm not sure how to characterize the mistake, or what the likely causes are (e.g. whether it follows from analogous constructions in other languages).
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Can we use though and although interchangeably? Somebody told me that the difference is that though cannot be used at the beginning of a sentence. Is that the rule?
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This is one thing that keeps bugging me, and maybe there's a direct answer. Grammatically, which one is more correct of these two?  Does it make a difference?  I tried not to do that. I tried to not do that.
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What is the difference in the meanings of the following sentences:      If you asked me, I would say no.     If you were to ask me, I would say no.    I know that these sentences express imagination of the speaker. But they look similar to me. I don't know which one is correct to use depending on the different context. Which sentence expresses more possibility of your asking ?  I think that 'were to'  could also express the meaning 'by chance' or happen to' for example: 1."If you were to ask me (If you happened to ask me or by chance) I would say no." Am I correct here ?  My question is about difference between these two sentences and which one is correct to use depending on different context.  I'm expecting an helpfull answer. Thank you very much in advance.
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I'm not a native speaker. Apologies if the question is obvious.  The scenario is:   I'm not doing A, and I'm not doing B.   In order to communicate this joint event in a single sentence: should I say: "I'm not doing A or B" or "I'm not doing A and B." (I know I can also say "I'm doing neither A nor B" but that is a seperate solution.)  The source of my uncertainty is that the logical negation of (A and B) is [(not A) or (not B)] so I don't know whether "I'm not doing A and B" can be interpreted as   I'm not doing A, or I'm not doing B.   which is not my original scenario.
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Possible Duplicate:    I was having an SMS conversation with a friend and somehow &quot;Yes you're&quot; came into play in retaliation to a comment. Example:  Person 1: &quot;You are bad at English&quot;. Person 2: &quot;No I are not.&quot;. Person 1: &quot;Yes you're&quot;.  Is that acceptable? I would assume that it is. Think of &quot;don't&quot;. You can say:  &quot;No, don't.&quot;  or  &quot;I don't.&quot;  and it is a contraction like &quot;you're&quot;. So, is it okay?
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What is the difference between "I never was" and "I was never"? It seems that there is a subtle difference, but I can't quite grasp it. Is one of them informal?  For example:        I never was a good cook.   I was never a good cook.
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I don't understand, because if 'don't' is 'do not' then wouldn't the sentence without conjunctions be 'do not you dare' which I'm pretty sure isn't grammatically correct. Like, when we say the term it means something else, certainly not 'do not you dare' anyway. Any ideas on why? I am so glad English is my first language.
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Because "aren't" translates to "are not" I pose the question, can you use both interchangeably (in the context of "aren't we all?")? "Are not" sounds very grammatically incorrect in this situation. Can you say "you need not go there" as opposed to "you needn't go there"?   Basically, I thought you can say "you need not" instead of "you needn't" but that you can't say "are not" instead of "aren't" (in the context I've provided) because I've never heard the second.  My friend believes that if you can use one example interchangeably, you can use the other as well.  So,   Can you use example '1' interchangeably? Can you use example '2' interchangeably?
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What's the difference between either and neither? Can you provide me some examples?