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Double Negatives
Double negatives are highlighted in this very nice PowerPoint. Students are reminded that, when expressing a negative idea in writing, only one negative words should be used. After seeing both correct and incorrect forms, students...
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Standard English
Double negatives are a no-no in the English language, yet you hear people using them all the time. "I ain't got no pencils," is a classic example. This presentation addresses double negatives, and teaches learners how to avoid this...
K12 Reader
Nightmare Negatives: Correcting Double Negatives
Banish those very scary double negatives with some grammar practice. Learners rewrite eight sentences so that they no longer contain double negatives. The resource includes a sample sentence with correction as well as some information...
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Double Negatives Worksheet 1
In this grammar learning exercise, students underline each correct word in parenthesis in twenty sentences. Students choose the appropriate words that are not double negatives.
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Double Negatives 1
In this identifying double negatives worksheet, students read sentences containing double negatives and rewrite them so they make sense using a single negative. Students rewrite seven sentences.
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Avoiding Double Negatives
What double negatives are, and how to avoid using them, is the focus of this language arts worksheet. After a review of what double negatives are, learners address 15 problems that have to do with double negatives.
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Grammar Practice: Avoiding Double (or Multiple) Negatives
After an explanation of double negatives, young grammarians rewrite a series of sentences to eliminate the double or multiple negatives. An answer sheet is included.
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Correcting Double Negatives
In this double negatives learning exercise, students rewrite a set of 15 sentences, eliminating double negatives in each. Page is part of the Glencoe Online site.
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Grammar: Double Negatives
In this grammar errors worksheet, students identify the nine double negatives in the newspaper report. Students must rewrite the report without the double negatives.
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No, Not, Never Avoiding the Double Negative
In this double negative words instructional activity, students correct double negatives within 4 sentences by editing and rewriting the sentences.
McGraw Hill
Grammar Practice Workbook
To an English teacher, the only sound worse than nails on a chalkboard is a student using improper grammar. Make poor grammar a problem of the past with this extensive collection of worksheets that covers everything from sentence...
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Lesson Plan for English-Using Negatives in a Sentence
Students explore "negatives" in English grammar. In this grammar lesson, students generate a list of "negative" words such as "not" and "nowhere." Students listen to the teacher read examples of sentences with double negatives, identify...
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Correct Double Negatives
For this sentence revision worksheet, middle schoolers rewrite sentences to eliminate double negatives. If the sentence is incorrect, students provide at least two ways to correctly revise it. Some of the sentences may be correct as...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Multisensory Grammar Activities
Activate various learning styles while covering modifiers and double negatives. These activity ideas provides several sentences for examining each topic. After completing the activities, learners will know how to clarify meaning with...
Wesleyan College
Using Negative Words
For this grammar worksheet, students rewrite ten sentences by leaving out at least one negative word or by substituting ever for never or any for no or none.
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Total English Intermediate: Who Knows?
In this intermediate future tenses practice worksheet, students complete 8 sentences by following the prompts. Students also respond to 3 short answer questions pertaining to future tenses.
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Transforming Negatives to Positives
Students write diamonte poems that correspond to the double-exposed photograph they created. In this poetry and multimedia artwork lesson, students use the photographic process to create a double-exposed photo then create a diamonte...
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Language Arts Worksheets
Looking for some quick grammar warm-ups? What about handy spelling crossword puzzles? Find everything you need with a resource that contains practice worksheets for parts of speech, parts of a sentence, common grammatical errors, tricky...
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Negative Constructions
In this negative constructions worksheet, 7th graders review and discuss what negative constructions are and how to avoid using them in sentences. Students build three sentences with a set of words for each one.
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Silly Statements (Negatives)
In this statements learning exercise, students read and grammatically correct 18 silly statements. Students read over and double check each correction.
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Faulty Diction Worksheet 2
In this grammar activity, students rewrite twenty sentences making each one grammatically correct. Students rewrite all double negatives.
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Faulty Diction Worksheet 1
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite twenty sentences with double negatives so each one is grammatically correct. Students share their rewrites with their classmates.
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Fourth Grade Editing- Sentences
In this grammar and editing learning exercise, 4th graders rewrite each of 10 sentences while making corrections. They capitalize words, add end marks, and correct double negatives.
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Transforming Negatives to Positives
Students create double-exposed photographs, poetry, and multimedia presentations to celebrate their Open Court "City Wildlife" unit.