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NEGATION AND PARALLEL STRUCTURE
UNIT 05 : NEGATION AND PARALLEL STRUCTUREUNIT 05: NEGATION AND PARALLEL STRUCTURE
No vs Not
A. Use no as an adjective.
- Not going
- No choice
B. Use not as an adverb
- Not going
- Not busy
- Not likely
Main and Auxiliary Verbs
A. Put not or never after an auxiliary verb.
- He will not arrive today
- You should never eat there
B. If there is no auxiliary, do-support is necessary along with not
- She does not know him
- They do not live in Chicago
Non-finite Verbs: To-infinitives, Gerunds, and Participles.
Put a negative word before non-finite verbs.
- He prefers not taking the bus to work.
- In order not to fail again, you should work harder
- Not knowing what to do, he just stood still
Redundancy in Negation
A. Avoid double negatives
- She does not have no money. (Incorrect)
- She does not have any money. (Correct)
B. Do not use a negative word along with such words as hardly, seldom, scarcely, lest, unless.
- We could not hardly understand the situation. (Incorrect)
- We could hardly understand the stituation (Correct)
Parallel Structure
A. Parallelism between two or more words
- He is handsome, honest, and has a lot of money. (=> Rich)
B. Parallelism between two or more phrases
- You may answer the question either in English or Korean. (=> in Korean)
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