1. 一般否定句

句型1［主語+特殊定式動詞+not+行為動詞或表語+其他］

　　1. China of today is not what it was thirty years ago.

　　2. "Isn't that Teddy Thomson out?"-"I think it's him, but I can't be a hundred percent sure."

　　3. "Oh, sir, he can't have said such a thing! He can't have spoken like that to you, sir!"

　　4. We must not wait for favors from Nature; we must take them from her.

　　5. I haven't finished the book yet. 6. Money could not buy happiness.

　　[注1] He is no fool. Great barkers are no biters.

　　[注2] 二十四個特殊定式動詞：

句型2［主語+do(does, did)+ not+行為動詞+其他］

　　1. Sorrow doesn't buy bread. 2. Pure gold does not dread fire.

　　3. "Why is Mr. Cooper so angry today?"-"I don't know why."

　　4. "They did not steal so much."-"I don't care how much." He said, "… A thief is a thief."

句型3［主語+ 行為動詞+ no/not+賓語+其他］

　　1. A rolling stone gathers no moss.

　　2. Viola, hearing this, knew not how to behave, nor how to answer her.

　　3. I know not what course others may take, but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

　　4. We are fleet-winged men at arms; we fear not mountains high or rivers deep.

句型4［There be+ no/not/not any+主語(+狀語)］

　　1. There was no well in the village at that time.

　　2. Oliver Twist was born in a workhouse… There were no aunts, no sisters, no cousins, no grand mothers.

　　3. There is not a moment to be lost. 4. There is no holding back the wheel of history

　　[附注] 一般否定句的其他表達方式：

　　1. Who knows it? (=No one knows it.) Dare he do it? (=He dare not do it.)