Avoiding Double Negatives Quiz 3 (24 MCQs)

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1. I could not find my house key (anywhere, nowhere).
2. Choose the word that makes the sentence correct.Didn't she get you (nothing, anything) for your birthday?
3. Can't (nobody, somebody) get this jar open?
4. Choose the word that makes the sentence correct.They divided the pizza, but I didn't get (none, any).
5. There isn't ..... we need at the grocery store.
6. I won't have ..... but coffee with biscuits.
7. Ajia will not ..... lend me her cool Apple watch with an animated Mickey Mouse clock.
8. Choose the word that makes the sentence correct.The goalie doesn't have (any, no) excuse.
9. You (can, cannot) barely recognize him in that pirate hat.
10. Why doesn't ..... make some coffee?
11. Choose the word that makes the sentence correct.I (can, can't) hardly reason with her.
12. Choose the word that makes the sentence correct.The athletes hardly (ever, never) have a break between events.
13. The baby (cannot, can) hardly walk yet even though she is 20 months old.
14. Until she took off her hat, there ..... no one who thought she would have purple hair!
15. Choose the word that makes the sentence correct.Don't (never, ever) use both not and scarcely together.
16. Double negatives are grammatically correct.
17. We won't have trouble driving ..... tomorrow.
18. Choose the word that makes the sentence correct.It (was, wasn't) no big deal when we won the game.
19. The second rule says that we should use double negatives in formal writing.
20. I can't find the coffee .....
21. The box doesn't have (a) because you left it empty.
22. Kameron doesn't have ..... patience for interruptions.
23. Choose the word that makes the sentence correct.This problem doesn't make (no, any) sense.
24. A golden rule is to only use one negative element in a sentence.