Grammar and Language Workbook

25. We waited for you but you didn’t come.
26. I’ll never give my heart again.
27. Sheila won’t wait if you’re not there on time.
28. Karl doesn’t think about nobody but himself.
29. I never read no book by that author.
30. She doesn’t study any language but English.
31. I can’t barely believe that.
32. We simply didn’t want to hear no music by that group.
33. Sandra got no news from Michele.
34. Tobacco doesn’t do nobody no good.
35. There are only a few of us who don’t like that movie.
36. If you don’t know the facts, you shouldn't talk as if you do.
37. Lester doesn’t do no strenuous exercise.
38. Didn’t you do any research?
39. The cleaning service doesn’t do no windows.
40. I didn’t buy nobody a valentine.
 Exercise 2
Circle the two negative words in each double negative. Write C in the blank if the
sentence is correct.
I wasn’t getting nowhere with my plan for starting a business.
1. Josie never got called by no salespeople at dinnertime.
2. She eats chicken and fish, but she doesn’t eat no red meat.
3. Jake’s new truck doesn’t have no stereo yet.
4. She wasn’t accepted by none of her first-choice colleges.
5. Mira’s salad is the one that doesn’t have no tomato in it.
6. If I don’t get home six, I won’t have time for dinner.

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7. He didn’t want his parents to throw no big graduation party.
8. Mr. Alvarez didn’t want to bake no cookies on such a hot day.