He didn’t thank me or both?
How do you tell if someone didn’t ‘thank you’ or’he didn’t to thank you? Which is correct and the other is wrong? I am
in need of help and a good life. Thank you.
Apart from the two versions you propose, the normal idiomatic wording in English is “X didn’t so much as thank me” (which could mean: X didn’t thank me, or that X had been allowed to smile at me and did not thank me). If you must work “so much as to” into a sentence with “thank you” in an idiomatically normal way, but only by drastically revising the sentence so that it doesn’t mean “X didn’t even thank me.” I asked X to thank me for my new
job. He was never interrupted..:) X don’t get punished. (he says “he got the job “..)
In a sentence c, the phrase “so much as to” functions as part of a comparison between A and B made as “not to do A so much as to do B,” a situation very different from the original one. How well do you figure it out if you want to build a sentence with “X didn’t so much as to thank for me”?
As comments have pointed out, though, an expression of the form “X didn’t so much as to thank me” is not normal in idiomatic English.
