Contraction Action and Double Negatives

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Contraction ActionandDouble Negatives
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Double Negatives
Double

• Only one negative word in a sentence.
• When a sentence uses two negative words it is
  called a double negative.
• no isnt not
• dont cant but
• just barely hardly
• except only neither
• rarely nothing nowhere

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Double Negatives
Double

• Bad grammarThey seldom ever visit us.
• Good grammarThey seldom visit us.
• Bad grammarThey didn't hardly have enough food
  left.
• Good grammarThey hardly have enough food left.
  

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Double Negatives
Double
MORE

• Bad grammarShe isn't but a homeless little
  girl.
• Good grammarShe is but a homeless little girl.
  
• Bad grammarHe can't hardly wait for his present
  to arrive.
• Good grammarHe can hardly wait for his present
  to arrive.

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You Dont Need No Double Negatives

• You aren't barely old enough to live on your own.
• Why can't you hardly wait for your parents to
  pick you up?
• She was so disappointed because she couldn't go
  neither.
• I have so much to do that I haven't ever got time
  to rest.

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Contraction Action

• I

• am

Im
you
are
youre
it
is
its
he
is
hes
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Contraction Action
she
is
shes
is
not
isnt
let
us
lets
did
not
didnt
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Contraction Action
we
will
well
could
not
couldnt
will
not
wont
you
will
youll