Factual_situation

The situation or part of situation that actually pertains, in contradistinction to the profiled situation in the Negated_proposition that is asserted not to pertain. In spoken language and casual written language, but not in normatively edited written texts, the Factual_situation may be expressed as an unmarked clause immediately preceding or following the Negated_proposition. She did n't know, rather she suspected . She had not one, but two books on transcendentalism . I did n't say anything , but rather paced all the more nervously .