{"id":74031,"date":"2020-04-16T09:42:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T09:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=74031"},"modified":"2020-04-16T09:42:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T09:42:29","slug":"how-to-make-negatives-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/how-to-make-negatives-in-english\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Make Negatives In English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We make\u00a0<b>negative forms<\/b>\u00a0by putting\u00a0<b>not\u00a0<\/b>after an <a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/primary-auxiliary-verbs\/\">auxiliary verb.<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>do not\u00a0<\/b>smoke.<\/li>\n<li>He\u00a0<b>did not<\/b>\u00a0come.<\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0<b>are not\u00a0<\/b>expected to come.<\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0<b>have not been<\/b>\u00a0invited.<\/li>\n<li>She\u00a0<b>has not<\/b>\u00a0come.<\/li>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>cannot\u00a0<\/b>go.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Basic rules<\/h4>\n<p><b>1.\u00a0<\/b><b><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/using-do-and-does-for-emphasis\/\">Do<\/a><\/b>\u00a0is used if there is no other auxiliary verb. After\u00a0<b>do<\/b>, we use the <a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/infinitives-without-to\/\">infinitive without\u00a0<\/a><b>to.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Money\u00a0<b>brings\u00a0<\/b>you happiness. (assertive)<\/li>\n<li>Money\u00a0<b>does not bring\u00a0<\/b>you happiness. (negative)<\/li>\n<li>She\u00a0<b>came<\/b>. (assertive)<\/li>\n<li>She\u00a0<b>did not come.\u00a0<\/b>(negative)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>2.\u00a0<\/b>When\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/be-as-an-auxiliary-verb\/\"><b>be<\/b><\/a>\u00a0(is, am, are, was, were) is the main verb, we make negative forms by putting<b>\u00a0not<\/b>\u00a0after<b>\u00a0be<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She\u00a0<b>is not\u00a0<\/b>ready.<\/li>\n<li>You\u00a0<b>are not\u00a0<\/b>late.<\/li>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>was not\u00a0<\/b>surprised.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>3.\u00a0<\/b>When\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/have-as-an-auxiliary-verb\/\">have<\/a><\/b>\u00a0is the main verb, we make negative forms by putting\u00a0<b>do not<\/b>\u00a0before<b>\u00a0have<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They\u00a0<b><a href=\"have-structures.htm\">have<\/a><\/b>\u00a0a car. (assertive)<\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0<b>do not have\u00a0<\/b>a car. (negative)<\/li>\n<li>He\u00a0<b>has\u00a0<\/b>a good job. (assertive)<\/li>\n<li>He\u00a0<b>does not have\u00a0<\/b>a good job. (negative)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>4.\u00a0<\/b>We use\u00a0<b>not<\/b>\u00a0before infinitives and<b>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/gerunds-ing-forms\/\">-ing\u00a0<\/a><\/b>forms.\u00a0<b>Do\u00a0<\/b>is not used.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is important\u00a0<b>not to be\u00a0<\/b>late.<\/li>\n<li>The best thing about a computer\u00a0<b>is not complaining.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>5.\u00a0<\/b>Besides\u00a0<b>not<\/b>, there are also other words that can make a clause negative.<\/p>\n<p>Compare:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He is\u00a0<b>not\u00a0<\/b>at home.<\/li>\n<li>He is\u00a0<b>never\u00a0<\/b>at home.<\/li>\n<li>He is\u00a0<b>seldom\/rarely\/hardly ever\u00a0<\/b>at home.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Negative questions<\/h3>\n<p><b>Contracted\u00a0<\/b>and<b>\u00a0uncontracted<\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/negative-questions\/\">negative questions<\/a>\u00a0have different word order.<\/p>\n<p>Compare:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Can&#8217;t we\u00a0<\/b>wait? (auxiliary verb + n\u2019t + subject \u2013 contracted)<\/li>\n<li><b>Won&#8217;t she\u00a0<\/b>come? (auxiliary verb + n\u2019t + subject \u2013 contracted)<\/li>\n<li><b>Can we not\u00a0<\/b>wait? (auxiliary verb + subject + not \u2013 uncontracted)<\/li>\n<li><b>Will she not\u00a0<\/b>come? (auxiliary verb + subject + not \u2013 uncontracted)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Contracted negative questions are less formal than uncontracted negative questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We make\u00a0negative forms\u00a0by putting\u00a0not\u00a0after an auxiliary verb. I\u00a0do not\u00a0smoke. He\u00a0did not\u00a0come. They\u00a0are not\u00a0expected to come. They\u00a0have not been\u00a0invited. She\u00a0has not\u00a0come. I\u00a0cannot\u00a0go. Basic rules 1.\u00a0Do\u00a0is used if there is no other auxiliary verb. After\u00a0do, we&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[2664,211],"class_list":["post-74031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-negative-questions","tag-negatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74032,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74031\/revisions\/74032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}