Double Negatives

Aim: How do we correct double negatives?

A negative word indicates no. When two negative words are used it becomes a positive statement:

I don’t have no money = I have money.

I don’t have no friends: I have friends

Use only one negative word to indicate no.

       I don’t have money.                    I have no friends.

I have no money.                 I don’t have friends.

Fix the following sentences:

1.    There is scarcely none of the bird seed left in the feeder.

2.   Don’t get no fries with your order. You can share mine.

3.    We can’t stop no one from walking in the wet grass.

4.    Hardly no one ordered the pizza today.

5.    There weren’t no bags of popcorn left when I got there.