The rules
- To make a sentence negative, put not after the first helping verb: She can swim → She cannot swim.
- With no helping verb, add do, does or did + not and use the plain verb: He likes tea → He does not like tea. The tense is shown once, in do, does or did.
- Change the partner words: some → any, already → not … yet, too → either, somebody → nobody.
- A negative order starts with Don’t; Let’s becomes Let’s not.
- Must (you have to) becomes need not (you don’t have to). Must not means something is forbidden.
- Some negatives keep the meaning, or nearly: only → none but (a person) or nothing but (a thing), sometimes → not always, a little → not much, a few → not many.
- Words like nobody, nothing, never, hardly and neither already carry the not: don’t add another (Nobody came, not Nobody didn’t come).
This time: 0 right, 0 wrong