Language Development

Flight 400 Is Not Late!

Negative Sentences

Negative sentences can use not, do not, or does not.

Build Negative Sentences

Read each sentence. Add not to make it a negative sentence. Say the new sentence.

    Example
  • 1. We are on Flight 400.

    We are not on Flight 400.

  • 1. We are on Flight 400.

  • 2. It is 10:00.

  • 3. We are late.

  • 4. People are in a hurry.

Read each sentence. Add do not or does not to make it a negative sentence. Say the new sentence.

    Example
  • 5. The plane leaves at 10:30

    The plane does not leave When you use does not, take the s off the verb. at 10:30.

  • 5. The plane leaves at 10:30.

  • 6. We walk very fast.

  • 7. We get to Gate 55.

  • 8. A woman talks to us.

  • 9. We miss the plane.

  • 10. The plane leaves without us.

Written Practice Illustration of the pen icon

11.–20. Write the sentences you made in Items 1–10 above.

Photograph of a family rushing through an airline terminal with their luggage
    Example
  • 11. We are on Flight 400. We are not on Flight 400.