Practice Makes Perfect

Negation

Add notafter the verb to beto make it negative:

I am I am not

you are you are not

she is she is not

we are we are not

they are they are not

With all other verbs, use do/doesand notto make a verb negative. Dois conjugated for the subject

of the sentence, and the original verb becomes an infinitive. The structure is do not infini-

tive. Look at these examples:

Original Sentence Negative Sentence

I like hot milk. I do not like hot milk.

She has my books. She does not have my books.

Danielle goes to the window. Danielle does not go to the window.

We find the money. We do not find the money.

It grows cold. It does not grow cold.

Negate each sentence by adding notto it.

1. Delores is in the capital.


2. We have enough money now.


3. My father sends him a postcard.


4. The books are on the table.


5. I go home late.


6. I am an American.


7. The girls buy some ice cream.

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