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Negatives in infinitive.



 
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Is Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English wrong? | first conditional
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Negatives in infinitive. #1 (permalink) Tue Apr 29, 2008 21:35 pm   Negatives in infinitive.		  
Can somebody help me with this?
I know I can write a sentence like this:
The records have been updated to show you the last information....

but what about if the action was negative...
Can I write: The records have been updated to don't show you old information?
or The records have been updated to not show you old information?

Thanks in advance...
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Negatives in infinitive. #2 (permalink) Tue Apr 29, 2008 22:49 pm   Negatives in infinitive.		  
tupapa wrote:
Can somebody help me with this?
I know I can write a sentence like this:
The records have been updated to show you the last information....

Generally speaking, you would use 'the latest' rather than 'the last' in a sentence such as that.
tupapa wrote:
but what about if the action was negative...
Can I write: The records have been updated to don't show you old information? No, that's not grammatical.
or The records have been updated to not show you old information? That sounds awkward to me.
I might use this instead:
The records have been updated so you won't get any outdated information.
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Negatives in infinitive. #3 (permalink) Tue Apr 29, 2008 22:55 pm   Negatives in infinitive.		  
That was cool!.
Thanks so much for the two corrections.
It was my first time here and I'm really impressed.
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