double negatives
in English can make you sound uneducated or unclear. I’m going to teach you how to avoid these common mistakes. Though double negatives are often used by native speakers, they are slang and they are grammatically incorrect. As an English learner it is important to understand slang, but you shouldn’t try to use incorrect grammar, especially in cases like this where it can make people think you mean the opposite of what you want to say! I’ll show you examples of some of the most common double negatives that English learners and native speakers use. You’ll learn how to correct these mistakes so that your English is clear and correct.
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Ain’t= are is [ not]
Ain’t got = don’t have
Iam [ aren’t i ]
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Thank you very much to delivered a great lecture that covered double negative sentence, even I got D grade but unfortunately I did not understand why we use double negative words in a sentence. I am wondering if you explain or help me.
Very illuminating, but after this lesson I must stop watching movies on tv where almost everybody use a very bad slang!
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Hi Ronnie.
‘I don’t have nothing’ – I think, the hungarian students often make this mistake.
In Hungarian this sentence is right, and ’I don’t have anything’ (literally)= it is strange.
We say: ’I don’t have milk.’ (like in English) and ’I don’t have nothing’ (no milk, no bread, no butter, nothing)
It isn’t a mathematical problem in Hungarian. Repetition of negation gives a stronger tone, therefore we often use double negatives.
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Don’t be negative.
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Yeah! ten! Well Ronnie I found a lot songs wherein its lyrics appear to “ain´t” double negative: Nina Simone “Ain’t got no home, ain’t got no shoes
Ain’t got no money, ain’t got no class…”
There´re people who say “ain´t? just it´s a slang, it´s good, use it” because (perhaps) this is popular, accepted or legitimate. But I do agree with you it´s no grammatically correct. Do you have another opinion about this? Greetings!
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I thought before, ain’t was a cool word to use in a conversation :D
We don’t need no education… hehe, well I guess the double negative is just an artistic measure, and the actual artist knows the right grammar. What I’ve noticed recently is that there’s a huge trend for “ain’t + no” in the music, which I personally find really annoying, but well… what can we do :)
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I haven’t got any problem with this lesson, and I learnt why not to use “ain’t” and double negatives, generally, in English. Let me try a possibly valid one, albeit weird: Jack didn’t buy a not used motorcycle, differently of what you recomended for his safety when you said: “Buy a not used motorcycle, if you are desiring to buy one”.
Interesting that in Portuguese the double negative works to reinforce the negative, what is contrary to logic.
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Thanks, Ronnie! It is a big problem for russian speakers – we use double negative (or even triple if necessary).
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In Chinese two double-negatives words mean one positives word,Which like “I don’t have nothing” mean “I do have anything” in Chinese grammar.It’s very different. XD
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I’ve been tought that double negatives can make my point stronger in certain cases. Is it true? I do not mean “ain’t no” – this is just a bad English.
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