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Double Negatives. SPI 0401.1.7. A double negative contains two negative words:. He doesn't even know no one. My sister used to play.. um basketball.. but she doesn't no more . They don’t have nothin. But no -one didn’t answered. Correcting Double Negatives. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Double Negatives
SPI 0401.1.7
A double negative contains two negative
words:He doesn't even know no
one. My sister used to play.. um
basketball.. but she doesn't no more .
They don’t have nothin.But no-one didn’t answered.
Correcting Double Negatives
The clause I don't have none contains two negative words—the contraction don't and the adjective none.
If you don't have none, then you do have some. To express a negative idea, you should use only one negative word.
Remember: In addition to such negative
words as never, no, none, and not, the words scarcely, hardly, and barely function as negatives and should not be used with other negative words in the same clause.
Incorrect He never cooks nothing
exciting for dinner.
Correct
He never cooks anything exciting for dinner.
Incorrect We can't hardly wait for a
change in the menu.
CorrectWe can hardly wait for a change in the menu.
Incorrect You haven't been reading no books
on how to cook bugs, have you?
Correct•You haven't been reading books on how to cook bugs, have you? or•You haven't been reading books on how to cook bugs, have you?
Words combined with n't and the word not are
negative words.
Incorrect Liza did not feel nothing.
Correct
•Liza felt nothing.
Give yourself a test. . They didn't have tickets. (
any, no)
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Our team hasn't won the league title. (never, ever)
GREAT JOB!!
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Try these. He didn't bring of the food. (
any, none)
GREAT JOB!!
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Haven't you been to a football game? (ever, never)
GREAT JOB!!
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We can't find the basketball . (nowhere, anywhere)
GREAT JOB!!!
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OOPS! Try Again…
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Always remember:
Don't use no double negatives. . .
Or maybe we should say, don’t use any double negatives!
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quiz.
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