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Double Negatives!

Double Negatives!. By Emily Ray. 3 Commonly asked questions about double negatives… What is a negative word? What is a double negative? What is wrong with using a double negative ? *Answer these questions for the pre-teaching activity. Question 1: What is a negative word?

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Double Negatives!

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  1. Double Negatives! By Emily Ray

  2. 3 Commonly asked questions about double negatives… What is a negative word? What is a double negative? What is wrong with using a double negative? *Answer these questions for the pre-teaching activity

  3. Question 1: What is a negative word? • A word that contradicts the statement or the word it describes • -negative words: no, not, none, nothing, nowhere, neither, nor, nobody, no one, hardly, scarcely, barely • -Examples: don’t have, won’t go, not buying, barely ate • -The negative word don’t is contradicting, making opposite, the word have. Having something and not having something are complete opposites of each other.

  4. Question 2:What is a double negative? -A construction that employs two negatives, especially to express a single negotiation. -A double negative is usually produced by combining the negative form of verb (e.g., cannot, did not, have not) with a negative pronoun (e.g., nothing, nobody), a negative adverb (e.g., never, hardly) or a negative conjunction (e.g., neither/nor) -Examples: don’t need none, ain’t heard nothing, never tell nobody, neither of us don’t

  5. Question 3: What is wrong with using a double negative? -Often double negatives mean the opposite of what you are trying to say. -cancel each other out and make a positive - For example if you said, “I don’t need no education,” you would technically be saying that no education is something you don’t need. In other words, you need an education.

  6. How to fix a double negative in a sentence • -many times you can just take out one of the negative words • For example: “I don’t have no money” you could change to “I’ve got no money” or “I don’t have money.” • You can also replace some words with the positive form of it • For example: “I don’t need none,” you could change to, “I don’t need any.”

  7. Rule 1: • Negative + negative = positive word word phrase Jenny didn’t do nothing today.= positive

  8. Rule 2: • Negative + positive = negative word word phrase She doesn’t have an eraser I can borrow.= negative

  9. Questions?

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