Negatives - Grade 6
- 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
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.