PRESENT SIMPLE of MAIN VERBS — NEGATIVE



To make a negative sentence in the present simple we need a "DO support"
(the auxiliary verb DO), and the word NOT.

Present simple negative
He
She
It
This photograph 		doesn't show
doesn't have
doesn't include
 much information.
I
You
We
They
Automatic translators 		don't work
don't translate 		very well.

As you can see, we use doesn't when the subject is in the 3rd person singular, and we do not add an -s to the main verb. We use don't for all other subjects.

With the verb «have got» we have two options; we can use the "DO support", or use HAVE as an auxiliary verb, and GOT as the main verb:
  • A political map doesn't have any information about mountains.
  • A political map hasn't got any information about mountains.

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