Double negative
Once someone on forums told me that
"your sentence does not work probably because of double negative (never/not)."
Last night while I was watching a movie (forgot the name) I heard a sentence
"he did not have no legs" (the person was crippled)
This sentence, too, has double negative (did not/no). Is this sentence sound? What is its meaning?
Top answer
) It should be "He did not have any legs".
- ) It should be "He did not have any legs".
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He did not have no legs" (It is not grammatical.)
It should be "He did not have any legs".
0There are non-standard dialects of English which use double negatives. Also earlier forms of English (before 1800) used double negatives. The movies with characters who speak these dialects will have non standard English.
Double negatives are very common in popular music.
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