Grammar and Language Workbook

Place a check (
✔) in front of the sentences in which the negative is misused.
✔
I don’t get no respect.
1. I don’t remember nobody like that.
2. We will never do it again.
3. No, her name was not Esmerelda.
4. Unfortunately, we don’t have none.
5. I didn’t buy any of those.
6. Those pants don’t look no good on you.
7. Wasn’t that a blimp that I saw?
8. There won’t be any of that going on here!
9. The colonel didn’t say we couldn’t do it.
10. Doesn’t the rain sound loud on the tin roof?
11. I was not prepared for no test.
12. Don’t you know that mermaids aren’t real?
13. I don’t mind tasting no snow.
14. There wasn’t hardly any milk left for the cereal.
15. Clarissa and Jean Edmond went to the lake.
16. It’s just not possible that I didn’t get none!
17. We didn’t have the puppy scarcely a week.
18. He believes there aren’t none to be found.
19. Didn’t the fisherman catch anything today?
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20. We will wait until we can’t stand it anymore.
21. The stars don’t shine none when it’s raining.
22. I just don’t want to talk to you no more.
23. Ah, well, there isn’t hardly a point to it anymore.
24. I don’t listen to the radio to get no news!