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What is the difference between Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to win first place. and I never even expected to win first place. ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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There really is no difference except for a couple added words to spice up the sentence.
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First sentence has a stronger feeling of surprise, but both have the same meaning.
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The second has a sense of expected disappointment whereas the first one is more positive in connotation
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