I'm a bit confused about this. Which expression is correct?
You can't just do that.
or
You just can't do that.
I'm trying to say:
You can't just bash an ideology because of what someone has said/done.
Answer
As with only, one should exercise care in carefully placing just. In your sentence, you want:
- You can’t bash an ideology just because of what someone has said/done.
Because you want to be perfectly clear that just applies to because.
In the original pair of question, this one:
- You can’t just do that.
Applies just to do, whereas this one:
- You just can’t do that.
Applies just to can’t.
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