Re: going without "without"

Irina Rempt-Drijfhout wrote:

> Better; much better, even though it goes against the school-grammar
> rule that the verb should always be negated if anything else in the
> sentence is.
Say what?  "None of us are going to the store" negates, but not the
verb.  *"All of us aren't going to the store" is absolutely impossible
in English, thanks to the rule of negative attraction.

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