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Sara-Choon April 16, 2020
Number 6 “Not until”
For the sentence “yet not until teachers have the power to ...... can they enable their students to make their own decisions” can you explain why the NOT in the sentence modifies the latter half of the sentence which is translated to MoD(students make their own decision)? I initially translated that sentence as MoD -> not PMD . Could you provide detailed explanation as to how the “not until” sentence structure works ? Thank you !
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Was this question ever answered? I interpreted the "NOT" to apply directly to the statement that follows as well. Could someone clarify this for us please? Thanks again!
AnthonyHon June 14, 2020
Was this question ever answered? I interpreted the "NOT" to apply directly to the statement that follows as well. Could someone clarify this for us please? Thanks again!
AnthonyHon June 25, 2020
Hello folks, this seems to be a recurring challenge for me in the Sufficient & Necessary homework questions as well. Please chime in with some clarity at your earliest convenience.
Thank you!
Brett-Lindsayon July 2, 2020
I did that one intuitively and was surprised at its complexity when Mehran explained it.
I remember something about the "until" being the necessary condition, regardless of the order of the sentence it appears in, so
"Yet NOT until teachers have the power to make decisions in their own classrooms can they enable their students to make their own decisions."
equals
"Teachers will NOT be able to enable their students to make their own decisions until they (the teachers) have the power to make decisions in their own classrooms."
According to the "until/without" rule, the until condition becomes the necessary condition and the other is negated and becomes the sufficient condition:
"Yet NOT until teachers have the power to make decisions in their own classrooms can they enable their students to make their own decisions."
becomes
If teachers CAN help students MoD, then the teachers must have the PMD.
The original "not" at the beginning of the sentence is negated away (two negatives make a positive, like in math) so the sentence becomes positive.
