Sadlier Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 3 Answers

Negatives

• A negative is a word that means no or not. 
• Other examples are never, barely, hardly, and scarcely.
• Negatives may appear as the contraction -n’t (short for not). 
• Correct a double negative (two negatives) in a sentence by changing one into a positive word.

Example

• Nobody wants bad news. I didn’t want to hear it.

Negatives Worksheet

Write each sentence. Correct the double negative.
1. I couldn’t see nothing outside our tent.
2. Hardly no one wanted to investigate the noise .
3. Nobody couldn’t sleep that night.