Pengertian Double Negatives
Double Negatives adalah dua negative yang digunakan pada satu kalimat sehingga mereka saling meniadakan dan menghasilkan kalimat positif.
Lihat juga:
Negative Words
Beberapa contoh di bawah ini merupakan kata yang bila digunakan di dalam kalimat akan menghasilkan pernyataan negatif (negative words).
- no, not, n’t
- nobody, none, no one, nothing (indefinite pronoun)
- barely, hardly, never, scarcely (adverb of frequency)
- neither (indefinite pronoun, correlative conjunction)
Contoh Kalimat Double Negatives
| Double Negatives | Corrected Version (negatif) |
|---|---|
She barely has none.
Meaning (Positif):She has some. |
She barely has some. (Dia jarang punya beberapa.) |
Vina didn’t want nothing.
Meaning (Positif):Vina wanted something. |
Vina didn’t want something. (Vina tidak ingin sesuatu.) |
I haven’t never broken the rules.
Meaning (Positif):I have broken the rules. |
I have never broken the rules. (Saya tidak pernah melanggar aturan-aturan tersebut.) |
There wasn’t nobody.
Meaning (Positif):There was somebody. |
There was nobody. (Disana tidak ada seorangpun.) |
You didn’t do none of the suggestions.
Meaning (Positif):You do any of the suggestions. |
You didn’t do any of the suggestions. (Kamu tidak melakukan saran-saran tersebut.) |
I haven’t no money for vacation with my friends.
Meaning (Positif):I have any money for vacation with my friends. |
I haven’t any money for vacation with my friends. (Saya tidak punya uang untuk liburan.) |
Related Posts:
- penggunaan “really”
- Penggunaan Ain’t
- Tho (Informal Though)
- Matter (Verb / Noun)
- First, Firstly, at First
- Once (Adverb/Conjunction)
- Way (Noun / Adverb)
- No, None, dan None of
- No / Not
- Each / Every
References:
- Double Negatives. http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/grammar/doubneg.html. Accessed on March 2, 2013.
- Double Negatives. http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/double.html. Accessed on March 2, 2013.
- Double Negatives. http://www.southtexascollege.edu/dev-english/PowerPoint/gonzalez/grammar/N-Double-negatives.ppt. Accessed on March 2, 2013.