Emphasising a negative statement • We can use an expression like anything but + an adjective that expresses the exact opposite of what we want to say. • We can use expressions like whatsoever/at all. • We can also use a negative statement and contrast it with a positive one using It isn't/wasn't ... This course is anything but challenging. (It's too easy.) The student didn't do any homework whatsoever/at all. It isn't what you know, it's who you know.