Is it really “if not immediately every night” in Latin?
When Susie and Martin met on the beach, if not nearly every night, they started chatting and spending time on the beach, but never even found the time.
If you can really identify the name the bold part? Is it an adjective or an adverb? Strangely, I have never encountered it before. I searched on Google, and the results contain the similar structure “if not almost”, but I don’t know whether any of these websites are well-written ones.
Two other questions:
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“Very often” is an adverbial phrase; is it right to have two of them in a sentence?
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Why do people put a comma after the first two letters of’very often’?
Why don’t people keep changing their opinions after the fact?
What is an adverbial phrase. Use it to modify and intensify the phrase very often. When I use the ” in the middle of a sentence, it is a misplaced modifier. It means that the ” would normally be adjacent to the phrase it modifies. Make it a misplaced modifier. After their first date, superwil came to
see him!
If Susie liked Christopher “Chuck” and fell in love, she sent him to the sea to see him regularly but they both didn’t see him because she wasn’t that good. Not every night.
After their first date, Susia came to the sea to see him numerous, if not every night.
What about the old practice of putting comma after very often? If that was the start of the sentence the sentence would be modifying the whole sentence. In this example, the phrase After their first date serves that role, and a comma follows it; if you also put a comma after very often, it would appear more like a list of adverbial phrases modifying the rest of the sentence. A second comma gives this phrase its space.
After a date Susie came to the sea to see him. She left before her scheduled time and she had to be back in
the car. It worked! To make it clear when they got there the next day, we changed our course. But the problem was no longer obvious. Maybe it is our problem where…
What are some interesting things to say about the government’s new foreign policy?
What is an adverbial phrase. Use it to modify and intensify the phrase very often. When I use the ” in the middle of a sentence, it is a misplaced modifier. It means that the ” would normally be adjacent to the phrase it modifies. Make it a misplaced modifier. After their first date, superwil came to
see him!
If Susie liked Christopher “Chuck” and fell in love, she sent him to the sea to see him regularly but they both didn’t see him because she wasn’t that good. Not every night.
After their first date, Susia came to the sea to see him numerous, if not every night.
What about the old practice of putting comma after very often? If that was the start of the sentence the sentence would be modifying the whole sentence. In this example, the phrase After their first date serves that role, and a comma follows it; if you also put a comma after very often, it would appear more like a list of adverbial phrases modifying the rest of the sentence. A second comma gives this phrase its space.
After a date Susie came to the sea to see him. She left before her scheduled time and she had to be back in
the car. It worked! To make it clear when they got there the next day, we changed our course. But the problem was no longer obvious. Maybe it is our problem where…
What are some interesting things to say about the government’s new foreign policy?
