Grammar - Beware of Double Negatives

You have to be careful when you are using two negative words in the same sentence.

In English, the two negative words cancel each other out rather than solidify your negative sentence. Writing ‘I didn’t see no one’ is an odd way of actually writing you have seen someone, rather than an emphatic way of writing you didn’t see anyone at all.

Two other words that should never be used with a negative are scarcely and hardly. So an example of a wrong sentence would be something along the lines of ‘There wasn’t hardly any people there’.

Also when using the verb ‘miss’ in a sentence don’t use it with another negative. Miss already has a negative meaning associated with it so it doesn’t need another one. So the sentence ‘I miss not speaking to her’ is wrong and should look like ‘I miss speaking with her’.