ESL Easy Quiz - It Isn't Hard - Negative Present Tenses (Answers)
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You probably have a good grasp on how to say what is happening and now you need to learn about the negative present tense so that you can say what is NOT happening or DOES NOT happen. It's a little like learning where the brake is on a bike or a car, so that we can stop things under control when we need to! Don't worry too much about the terminology - just answer the questions below and negative present tense will soon seem natural to you.
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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.
Meanwhile, at time of writing, McEnroe is now well-established as a commentator at Wimbledon on BBC television. |
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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