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 | Meaning (positif) | Corrected Version (negatif) |
---|---|---|
She barely has none. | She has some. | She barely has some. (Dia jarang punya beberapa.) |
Vina didn’t want nothing. | Vina wanted something. | Vina didn’t want something. (Vina tidak ingin sesuatu.) |
I haven’t never broken the rules. | I have broken the rules. | I have never broken the rules. (Saya tidak pernah melanggar aturan-aturan tersebut.) |
There wasn’t nobody. | There was somebody. | There was nobody. (Disana tidak ada seorangpun.) |
You didn’t do none of the suggestions. | 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. | 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.) |
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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.