Double Negatives and Contraction Practice

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• Correct

• Incorrect

Our friends at home hadn't no fun.

• Our friends at home won't have no fun.

• Our friends at home shouldn't have no fun.

• Our friends at home had no fun.

• Our friends at home hadn't never had fun.

There isn't anything underneath the wire.

• There isn't nothing underneath the wire.

• There wasn't nothing underneath the wire.

• There shouldn't be nothing underneath the wire.

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I hardly have no money.

• I can't have no money.

• I won't have no money.

• I don't have no money.

• I hardly have any money.

There aren't no presents left to open.

• There aren't any presents left to open.

• There won't be no presents left to open.

• There aren't never presents left to open.

• There's never no presents left to open.

That won't do you no good.

• That wouldn't do you no good.

• That won't do you any good.

• That couldn't do you no good.

• That will do you good.

The hospital won't allow no more visitors.

• The hospital couldn't allow no more visitors.

• The hospital wouldn't allow no more visitors.

• The hospital won't allow anymore visitors.

• The hospital shouldn't allow no more visitors.

Which of the following sentences contains a double negative?

• I don't have any money.

• I can't find my keys nowhere.

• She is not going to the party.

• He will never do that again.

Identify the correct sentence without a double negative.

• I don't need no help.

• She doesn't want nothing.

• They won't do nothing about it.

• He doesn't have any idea.

Choose the sentence that is grammatically correct.

• I ain't got no time for this.

• We don't need no education.

• She hasn't got no friends.

• He doesn't have any problems.