When is it best to write "can't" versus writing "cannot"? Are they interchangeable in every situation?

"I cannot agree with you any more." means that I can no longer agree with you. I agreed with you before, but that has come to an end. "Anymore" is a somewhat controversial word which is …

9 "cannot not say" would only rarely be used in English, and only in very specific circumstances. In particular, this is not a simple double negative. "cannot not" does not mean the same as …

The use of seem to is usually a hedge, or a softener. The examples above are suggesting that the person feels they should be able to do something but cannot find the right way to do it …

The irony of the idiom is that one would expect to be able to eat the cake that he or she owned. In that case, possession of the cake would logically come before usage of the cake: You cannot …

Nov 23, 2011 · When you go to recall the word your brain cannot find it right away because it is not where it should be. That is why you usually remember it later that night or the next day, …

Under what circumstances would you prefer one of the following over the other two? Get hold of Get ahold of Get a hold of

I'm looking for a word that defines that something is out of our control in a business sense. For example, we can't control the postal delivery time, so it is... (out of our control). Needs to be ONE

12 I found this reference in The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms (1997) by Christine Ammer: leopard cannot change its spots, a Also the tiger cannot change its stripes. One can't …

8 Both are acceptable, but cannot is now more common. OED has this much to say about cannot: (ˈkænət) the ordinary modern way of writing can not: see CAN v. Notwithstanding, in some …