#grammar class

Double negatives are a big no-no in advanced writing! Here’s a short post explaining why, and how to avoid them. 

Before I tell you why you shouldn’t use double negatives, let me remind you of what they are:

I don’t want no cake! 

You can see that in the sentence, I have two negative words: “Don’t” and “No”. 

The main reason you can’t do this sort of thing is because it confuses the reader. Technically, I don’t want no cake means that you do want cake. People who are well versed in the written language will notice this, and assume you mean that you do indeed want cake. Others, who may not be as well aware could think that you don’t want cake. Readers will misinterpret your sentence, which is not what you want. To make sure that you are clear in what is happening, just avoid double negative sentences all together!

Essentially, when you have two negatives in a sentence they cancel each other out. When you’re speaking, double negatives might make more sense, but they are very confusing and render a sentence useless when written. For example, We don’t need pie, and we need no pie mean the same thing. But when you add them together, they cancel each other out. 

If you’re having trouble spotting a double negative, try this: rewrite the sentence with each of the negatives given. If each one is grammatically correct and still mean the same as one another, you have a double negative. Here are some examples:

I hardly never drink milk. 

I hardly drink milk. ✔

I never drink milk. ✔

She wasn’t going to not go.

She wasn’t going to go. ✔

She was not going to go. ✔

There! Now hopefully, you won’t ever have to deal with the complex confusingness that are double negatives! And remember, don’t never be not happy while writing. 😉

The post I reposted was saying English class and reading won't cause trauma, and I was like but it can.

Trauma isn't always something big, but can be something Itty bitty. Like it's a fact that re-arranging a room can be traumatic to your mind. No it's not something horrid, but it's still trauma. A 14-15 year old getting exposed to a heavy topic like m*rder, r*pe, abuse, r*cism, etc... can be traumatic, or if they're someone who has witnessed or experienced those topics, it could be triggering to pre-existing trauma.

Now I also listed an example that isn't common unless you have a sociopathic teacher who only shows up hungover the majority of the time she actually shows up.

I had a teacher, insane woman. When reading To Kill a Mocking Bird teachers show examples of similar cases to the one in the story, because the book shows realistic scenarios. Now she made us read all of the public information on one situations which was horrific, woman pretended to have been SAed because she didn't want to get in trouble with her dad. Then there were other stories of actually SAed women who didn't want to get men in their family in trouble so they blamed a local Black Man instead. These all went into heavy detail of what happened to these women. I mean very explicit. It caused half of my Female peers and a few Male peers to have PTSD attacks. The school had to apologize and asked students who was SAed which was very inappropriate. They should've apologized and then given an anonymous help or information thing.

Now I never said that was a universal situation, just that it happened to my peers and I.

I have no idea what the person who reposted mine said. It started say I'm the only person with that experienced that, like no shit I'm one of the 50ish kids. But whatever else they said I'll never see because the reposted and then blocked to me.

Give it a try and you won’t get disappointed!

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