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Double Negatives.
Stacy Christiansen
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (11 ed.)
Two negatives used together in a sentence constitute a double negative. The use of a double negative to express a positive is acceptable, although it yields a weaker affirmative than the simpler positive and may be confusing: Our results are not inconsistent with the prior hypothesis....View:
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