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
- She barely has none.
meaning (positif)
She has some.
corrected version (negatif)
She barely has some.
(Dia jarang punya beberapa.) - Vina didn’t want nothing.
meaning (positif)
Vina wanted something.
corrected version (negatif)
Vina didn’t want something.
(Vina tidak ingin sesuatu.) - I haven’t never broken the rules.
meaning (positif)
I have broken the rules.
corrected version (negatif)
I have never broken the rules.
(Saya tidak pernah melanggar aturan-aturan tersebut.) - There wasn’t nobody.
meaning (positif)
There was somebody.
corrected version (negatif)
There was nobody.
(Disana tidak ada seorangpun.) - You didn’t do none of the suggestions.
meaning (positif)
You do any of the suggestions.
corrected version (negatif)
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.
corrected version (negatif)
I haven’t any money for vacation with my friends.
(Saya tidak punya uang untuk liburan.)
Lihat juga:
- Contoh Riddle (Teka-Teki Bahasa Inggris) dan Jawaban
- Coordinate Conjunction vs. Adverbial Conjunction
- Contraction dalam Bahasa Inggris: Pengertian dan Contoh Kalimat
- Kata Mutiara Bahasa Inggris tentang Perceraian (Divorce) dan Artinya
- Kata Mutiara Bahasa Inggris tentang Orang Tua Tunggal (Single Parent) dan Artinya
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.