Sentence examples for doubling negatives from inspiring English sources
Yes, the doubling negatives have served as a kind of proxy debate over the character of the candidates, but that debate is not terribly enlightening.
The driver, an elderly man from Overton, had been to "Double Negative".
PAMELA GELLER No. ALAN FEUER And double negatives.
However, queen of all our one-word double negatives is irregardless.
Double negatives abound: expressions are "not unloving"; surprising sensations are "not unpleasant".
Fournier's piece of magic in Le Grand Meaulnes is to create a dreamland where these double negatives become a positive.
Commonsense rules for speaking are pinned up around the school, urging pupils to mind their slang and reject double negatives.
As the fifth son of parents who had dropped out of school, his speech was once rife with double negatives.
These ranged from "Don't Use No Double Negatives" to "Avoid Cliches Like the Plague," and included "No Sentence Fragments".
At first this approach was riddled with pitfalls - how do you code for double negatives or homonyms?
