The Story of the Double Negative

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In this week’s episode of Everyday Grammar, we’regoing to talk about two common types of doublenegatives. A double negative is when you use twonegative words in the same clause of a sentence.

Let’s take a real-world example. In 2012, PresidentObama spoke at United Nations about the Iran nuclearissue.

“America wants to resolve this issue throughdiplomacy, and we believe that there is still time andspace to do so. But that time is not unlimited.”