anymore

[Gordon, Matthew J.]

Is "I can't believe that you're hungry anymore" really standard? That's the claim made by Patricia O'Conner here:
http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2011/04/anymore-3.html

I'm a positive anymore speaker, so I can't tell, but I would think that this usage would only be standard if the 'anymore' applied to the main clause, which isn't the first reading I get.

-Matt Gordon

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