Examples of Negation

"No zinc tub, no buckets of stove-heated water, no flaky, stiff, grayish towels washed in a kitchen sink, dried in a dusty backyard, no tangled black puffs of rough wool to comb." (Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970)

"It was not singing and it was notcrying, coming up the stairs." (William Faulkner, "That Evening Sun Go Down," 1931)

"I had never before heard pure applause in a ballpark "I had never before heard pure applause in a ballpark. No calling, nowhistling, just an ocean of handclaps, minute after minute, burst after burst, crowding and running together in continuous succession like the pushes of surf at the edge of the sand. It was a sombre and considered tumult. There was not a boo in it." (John Updike, "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," 1960)

Words that are used in negation No Not None No one Nobody Nothing Neither Nowhere Never Hardly Doesn’t Isn’t Wasn’t Shouldn’t Wouldn’t Couldn’t Won’t Can’t Don’t Scarcely Barely