Grammar for Question 4 – Negative grammar verbs: don’t/doesn’t
Positive | |
---|---|
I | eat |
you | live |
we | like |
they | have |
he | eats |
she | lives |
it | likes |
has |
Negative | ||
---|---|---|
I | ||
you | don’t | |
we | eat | |
they | live | |
like | ||
he | have | |
she | doesn’t | |
it |
- I like rugby, but I don’t like football.
- You live in Scotland, you don’t live in France.
- He doesn’t understand me.
- She doesn’t drink alcohol.
- My dog doesn’t eat chocolate.
- James doesn’t like pizza.
- James and Susan don’t like pizza.
- We don’t go to school on Saturday.
- They don’t work very hard.
- It doesn’t rain in the desert.
Negative sentences with verbs (like/live/understand…) have a grammar verb: do not = don’t.
But remember: With he, she or it we use does not = doesn’t. With one person/thing (John/Sally/my car…) use doesn’t. Names of two or more people/things (John and Sally/my sisters/the cats…) use don’t |