AI Tutor - Lucy
Learn simple ways to talk about difficulty in English. Practise using “easy” and “hard”, and make clear sentences like “It isn’t hard” when you want to encourage someone.
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We 'do not do' things in English (like driving on the right-hand side of the road!)
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We usually use the present continuous form of the verb, even for a future event. (Arguably, having a baby is a 'process' rather than an 'event', so perhaps there is a sense of 'continuity' in this example!)
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This is how to make the everyday negative with a verb in the continuous form.
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The apostrophe, in such a situation, shows that one or more letters have been left out (in this case, from 'cannot'), so it must go between the N and the T. Nowhere else would be right.
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This carries the sense that the officials have not managed to make a sensible decision ('cannot'), rather than a vague possibility that they might have made a mistake.
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English does not need a 'double negative' ('I don't want no trouble' has two negative elements in it; the better version is 'I don't want any trouble').
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An example of the 'not ... any' structure.
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An example of the 'not ever' structure.
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Usually in English, when we deny a fact, we say 'I do not know' or 'It does not matter'. The pattern is to use a form of the 'do' auxiliary, then 'not' and then the infinitive form of the verb that isn't happening.
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This is the short form of how to say that some process is not happening.
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