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The alarm happened not to have gone off Is this sentence grammatically correct? The sentence means something like: it happened that the alarm didn’t go off. But I want to use more complex grammar
Oct 18, 2019 6:27 PM
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This is unnatural but correct. In a movie, a character might use this phrasing with a foreign accent to emphasize their foreigness.
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