• pyre@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    you just elaborated on what I said. also I don’t know what you mean by “it’s not the word it’s grammatical”—the only reason it doesn’t grammatically make sense is the because of the word itself. if “mondy” was the word you could be using it either way.

    I disagree that “now” is the positive version of anymore. you can’t use it in past tense. you could use “by then” but I think we’re possibly semantically getting further from “anymore”.

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      12 days ago

      They both have a meaning of “presently” with reference to a change that occured in the past.

      ‘Now’ is used when something presently is the case (positive) and ‘anymore’ is used when something presently is no longer the case (negative).

      Anymore is in the present just as much as now is. They both require present tense verbs even though they tell you something of the past.

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        12 days ago

        anymore isn’t in the present as much as now is; you can use it with literally any time frame.

        he tried to do it again but they didn’t fall for it anymore

        she can try again but I won’t fall for it anymore

        I would do it again but they weren’t going to fall for it anymore