Negatives

1. [Text]

Somebody’s listening.

Answers for Quiz [1].

• 1. Nobody’s listening. (correct)

2. [Text]

She’s borrowed some money from somewhere.

Answers for Quiz [2].

• 1. She hasn’t borrowed any money from anywhere. (correct)

3. [Text]

Give me something I can understand.

Answers for Quiz [3].

• 1. Don’t give me anything I can’t understand. (correct)

4. [Text]

I’ll visit her on Friday.

Answers for Quiz [4].

• 1. I won’t visit her on Friday. (correct)

5. [Text]

Somebody knows the right answer.

Answers for Quiz [5].

• 1. Nobody knows the right answer. (correct)

6. [Text]

I rang someone at the Gas Board.

(I haven’t rung anyone (we can also use anybody) at the Gas Board. (up until the present moment but there’s still a chance I could get through now…….)
I didn’t ring anyone (anybody) at the Gas Board. (in the past – and now the office is shut, so I’ve missed the opportunity so far.)
)

Answers for Quiz [6].

• 1. I didn’t ring anyone at the Gas Board. (correct)

7. [Text]

This dictionary belongs to someone.

(‘Anyone’ cannot be used in the negative as a subject (you must use ‘nobody or no-one’), but here it is an indirect object, with the verb using ‘not’.)

Answers for Quiz [7].

• 1. This dictionary doesn’t belong to anyone. (correct)

8. [Text]

She knows her results already.

Answers for Quiz [8].

• 1. She doesn’t know her results yet. (correct)