NEGATION

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NEGATION
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SPANISH vs ENGLISH

• Spanish makes a simple negative sentence by
  placing no in front of the conjugated verb. Él no
  habla español.
• English uses a helping verb to make a sentence
  negative even though the affirmative sentence has
  no helping verb. He does not speak Spanish.
• Spanish does not use any helping verbs to make a
  sentence negative. DONT TRY TO TRANSLATE THE
  HELPING VERB DO OR DOES TO ANY SPANISH
  SENTENCE.

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SPANISH vs ENGLISH

• Spanish sometimes requires double or even triple
  negatives. No habla nadie nunca en clase. (Nadie
  nunca habla en clase.)
• English does not allow the use of double
  negatives. No one ever talks in class.

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THERE ARE TWO WAYS IN SPANISH TO WRITE SENTENCES
WITH NEGATIVE WORDS.

• 1. Put No in front of the conjugated verb and the
  other negative word after the verb. No estudiamos
  nunca en la biblioteca.
• 2. Put a Negative word in front of the
  conjugated verb. You will not use no in this
  pattern.Nunca estudiamos en la biblioteca.
• No estudio nunca. Nunca estudio.
• No trabaja nadie aquí. Nadie trabaja aquí.

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USING OTHER NEGATIVE WORDS IN SPANISH

• Some sentences have one negative word and some
  have two, three, or four.
• There will always be one negative word in front
  of the verb. NUNCA camino con el perro. NO
  camino NUNCA con el perro.
• Any other word in the sentence that has a
  negative version will be in the negative, EVEN
  THOUGH EQUIVALENT ENGLISH NEGATIVE SENTENCES
  OFTEN USE AFFIRMATIVE WORDS. No one ever walks
  the dog. NADIE NUNCA camina con el perro.
  NADIE NO camina NUNCA con el perro.

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SENTENCE PATTERN

• Subject NO verb NEGATIVE WORD additional
  information Marcos NO va NUNCA
  al parque los martes.
• Subject NEGATIVE WORD verb additional
  information
• Marcos NUNCA
  va al parque los martes.

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PRACTICAMOS!Write each sentence using each of
the two patterns. Use the negative words in
parenthesis.

• Estudiamos antes de un examen. (no, nunca)
• No estudiamos nunca antes de un examen.
• Nunca estudiamos antes de un examen.
• Practica el fútbol. (no, nadie)
• No practica el fútbol nadie.
  
• Nadie practica el fútbol.
• Los domingos hago mucho. (no, nada)
• Los domingos no hago nada.
• Los domingos nada hago.

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PRACTICAMOS! Translate the sentences into
Spanish.

• 1. I never attend exercise class.
• No asisto nunca a la clase de ejercicios. Nunca
  asisto a la clase de ejercicios.
• 2. His friends dont read the newspaper.
• Sus amigos no leen el periódico.
• 3. No one scuba dives in Nebraska.
• No bucea nadie en Nebraska.
• Nadie bucea en Nebraska.

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MÁS PRACTICA!

• 4. My friends and I never ski on the weekends.
  (esquiar)
• Mis amigos y yo no esquiamos nunca los fines de
  semana.
  Mis amigos y yo nunca
  esquiamos los fines de semana.
• 5. Dont you write letters to your friends?
  (escribir)
• No escribes cartas a tus amigos?
• 6. No one ever camps in March. (acampar)(marzo)
• Nadie no acampa nunca en marzo.
  Nadie nunca acampa en marzo.

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SIMPLE NEGATIVE SENTENCES IN SPANISH

• The best way to create a simple negative sentence
  is to think of the affirmative sentence and put a
  no in front of the verb.
• Marco doesnt play soccer. Marco juega al
  fútbol. Marco no juega al fútbol.