negative forms
Negative short answers with hope, expect, believe, guess, suppose, and be afraid
Add NOT - Formal context Do you think Marc is going to be late again? I HOPE NOT. In affirmative equivalent is SO I AM AFRAID SO.
Negative forms
Think, believe, suppose, imagine, and want
Negative Imperatives
1st verb in negative not the secondI DON´T THINK it´s a good idea
We use DON´T DON´T FORGET to print your train ticket.
Have to and must
Similar meaning in positive, sentence in negative completely different meaningYou MUSTN´T take too much luggage - Don´t do it You DON´T HAVE TO take too much luggage - You can, but you won´t need it
Negative forms
Negative suggestion
Let´s+NOT+infinitiveLet´s NOT GO out tonight
Negative Infinitive
Use NOT before toWe agree NOT TO GO to another beach holiday this year.
NO
NONE
a) If an article or a possessive adjective is before the noun.NONE of my friends remembered my birthday. b) NONE is a pronoun we use in place of a noun to say "NOT ONE" or "NOT ANY" There were three shops when I lived here. There are NONE now.
Before plural or uncountable nouns in a positive sentence. There are NO trains from the airport.
Neither
Neither
A) Neither + auxiliary verb + pronoun. Agree with negative statements. I don´t like cold weather. NEITHER do I. *In affirmative we use SO do I B) pronoun + neither I don´t like the film. Me NEITHER.
C) not + either We don´t feel like going out tonight. We DON´T EITHER.
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negative forms
Negative short answers with hope, expect, believe, guess, suppose, and be afraid
Add NOT - Formal context Do you think Marc is going to be late again? I HOPE NOT. In affirmative equivalent is SO I AM AFRAID SO.
Negative forms
Think, believe, suppose, imagine, and want
Negative Imperatives
1st verb in negative not the secondI DON´T THINK it´s a good idea
We use DON´T DON´T FORGET to print your train ticket.
Have to and must
Similar meaning in positive, sentence in negative completely different meaningYou MUSTN´T take too much luggage - Don´t do it You DON´T HAVE TO take too much luggage - You can, but you won´t need it
Negative forms
Negative suggestion
Let´s+NOT+infinitiveLet´s NOT GO out tonight
Negative Infinitive
Use NOT before toWe agree NOT TO GO to another beach holiday this year.
NO
NONE
a) If an article or a possessive adjective is before the noun.NONE of my friends remembered my birthday. b) NONE is a pronoun we use in place of a noun to say "NOT ONE" or "NOT ANY" There were three shops when I lived here. There are NONE now.
Before plural or uncountable nouns in a positive sentence. There are NO trains from the airport.
Neither
Neither
A) Neither + auxiliary verb + pronoun. Agree with negative statements. I don´t like cold weather. NEITHER do I. *In affirmative we use SO do I B) pronoun + neither I don´t like the film. Me NEITHER.
C) not + either We don´t feel like going out tonight. We DON´T EITHER.
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