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Negative English Grammar

 
 
Reply Tue 30 Apr, 2013 06:28 am
Dearest English teachers,
are all my sentences below acceptable? Thanks in advance.
1)Don't you eat here.
2)You don't eat here.
3)All people don't say a word.
4)Don't anyone say a word.
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Reply Tue 30 Apr, 2013 06:41 am
@Loh Jane,
Number one would only likely be seen if it were a question. For example:

Let's stop here and get a bite to eat.
No thanks.
Don't you eat here?


It is not unacceptable as an imperative, but just unlikely.

Number two is fine.

Number three is just not something a native speaker would say. There is nothing technically incorrect about it, though.

Number four is correct and it is in fact something a native speaker would be very likely to say.
Loh Jane
 
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Reply Tue 30 Apr, 2013 07:43 am
@Setanta,
Hi Setanta,
thank you very much.
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