Do you make these mistakes?
"I cannot only dance but I can also sing." Oops, did I say that? I meant "I can not only dance but I can also sing" . This is one of the numerous mistakes made in English. The blunder comes in the unspaced collocated word " cannot " and its usage in this context. If you read this post till the end, I assure you that you'll discover common errors which you initially thought were correct. I remember being involved in a heated argument due to this error, I held my ground making the point that it was not spaced until I learnt that " cannot " denotes an impossible action and "can not" shows one can perform two activities. So, when " cannot " is used, it states an impossibility e.g. She cannot drive . This means she lacks the ability to perform such action. " Cannot " can also be contracted to the word " can't " while " can not" is used when an individual is able to perform two different acti...