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negatives Dogs can't fly. I don't know why.

AM NOT HAVE NOT WILL NOT CANNOT DO NOT

To make negative sentences: put not after an auxiliary verb.
(Auxiliary verbs are: be {am etc), have/has/had, will, would, can, could, shall, should, may, might, must.)

It is not raining. I have not seen Bill. She cannot understand me.
In conversation we usually use contractions (see page 301):
aren't isn't wasn't weren't haven't hasn't hadn't won't (= 'will not') wouldn't
can't couldn't shan't shouldn't mightn't mustn't
We say I'm not, NOT / amn't. We can also say you're not (= 'you aren't'), he's not, she's not etc.

It isn't/It's not raining. We weren't at home. I haven't seen Ben.
She can't understand me. You mustn't tell anybody. I'm not ready.

^ Make negative sentences. Use contractions.

► Dogs can swim, {fly) ..? ?.& .................................................

1 Milk is white, (red) ...............................................................................

2 The children are at school, {at home) ...............................................................................
3 Max has been to Japan. {Egypt) ...............................................................................
4 You must give this letter to Erica, {her mother) .......................................................................
5 I'll be here tomorrow, {in the office) ...............................................................................
6 I could talk when I was two years old. {swim) .........................................................................
7 We were in London yesterday. (Birmingham) .........................................................................

8 I'm Scottish. {English) ...............................................................................

^ Write five things that you can't do. Here are some suggestions.

dance draw drive play chess/bridge etc play the piano/guitar etc
remember faces remember names ride a horse sing

speak French/Chinese etc understand maths

I c-aiA/t specie cnjern/tfliA,.
1 ...........................................

2 .................................................... 'There are three things that
3 ........................................... I can't remember: names, faces,
4 ........................................... and I've forgotten the other.'
5 ...........................................

^ Write five things that you probably won't do next week. Here are some suggestions.

go to New York get married get rich play football become President
write a poem buy a car make a cake read Shakespeare climb Mount Everest

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