todonada

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why is the following sentence wrong? Denny said, "Nobody is going nowhere until the work is done."

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Chiangmai

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anywhere.....Do NOT use double negative words in the same sentence.

14 years ago. Rating: 3
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figtree3

That's the rule.

commented 14 years ago

Colleen

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Didn't we answer this already? Try doing your own homework instead of having others do it for you. How can you learn when you have others just giving you the answer?

14 years ago. Rating: 2
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doolittle

I agree!

commented 14 years ago

Bob/PKB

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I've got to add my 2 cents because this is one of the grammatical errors that just drives me crazier. If nobody is going nowhere, it means that somebody IS going SOMEwhere.
It is like saying, "I don't have no pencil". If you do not have "no pencil", you must have "a pencil".

14 years ago. Rating: 1
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Clonge

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It's only wrong if somebody is, or somebodies are, actually going somewhere.

14 years ago. Rating: 1
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todonada

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Thank you. I was not asking for it to be corrected, but why it was wrong. You told me what I was looking for. thank you.

14 years ago. Rating: 1
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Colleen

We get a lot of these types of questions and in all of them, the student wants to sentence to be corrected. We can only go by what we know from previous questions.

commented 14 years ago

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