2021-12-08
14 分钟Hi there.
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So what are we going to talk about?
Well, often when I'm teaching students, they fall into the old habit of using what I call double negatives.
So, two negatives.
Two negative words in the one sentence, and it's a definite.
I'm going to use two negatives now.
It's a definite no no.
Okay, so it's a definite no no.
Don't use double negatives.
For example, I haven't seen nothing.
Yeah, so that's absolutely bad English and you shouldn't use it.
The obvious option is I haven't seen anything so, negative with a positive or positive with a negative.
But it's something that happens quite often, and it comes up quite often.
So let me try and explain to you the rationale and the reasoning behind it.
Okay, so, as I said, double negatives are not something we like to use.
Occasionally they are used, but in very, very infrequent situations.