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Answer by fev for "Could not but" in interrogative sentence
As you can see from this Gngram, both could not but and could but are possible, and although they were in decline in the last century, they seem to be currently picking up:The idiomatic phrase is...
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Ronald is correct, this is archaic usage. The difference between: "How could I not but close my eyes?"and: "How could I not close my eyes?"is that the first one is more like "How could I do anything...
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Is the following sentence grammatically correct to write in literature?How could I not but close my eyes?As "I could not but close my eyes" is a valid sentence, I felt like this one should also be...
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