DOUBLE NEGATIVES
I always wonder how people whose only language being English, could speak in double negative.. for eg....
I don't do nothing...
I am not going nowhere...
I do not want to hear no more...
I am not saying nothing...
A double negative is a non-standard usage of two negatives in the same sentence, that cancel each other and create a positive statement. A sentence with double negatives is not grammatically correct.
There are even a couple of songs by famous artist with this double negative phrases...
Usage of ANYWAYS
Also the usage of the word anyways... there is no such word as "anyways" , it should be only "anyway".
Anyway is used if one means "in any case".. In formal writing "anyways" is never used and also it is suggested that usage of "anyways" should be avoided in an interview.
Nowadays we hear these two on TV a lot ...
These are basic grammatic mistakes which we can definetly aviod in our day to day speech so that the kids do not use incorrect usage of words..
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