Negative SentencesDon’t or Doesn’t

Does Not (Doesn’t) Berenices helps bake

bread.

My niece doesn’t help bake bread.

My niece goes to the movies.

Berenices doesn’t go to the movies.

What happens to the verb?

helpsdoesn’t help

goesdoesn’t go

hasdoesn’t have

He doesn’t help

She doesn’t help

It doesn’t help

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negative!

Berenices lives with her uncle.

Berenices has a turtle.

Her older sister goes to school.

Her grandmother sits in a chair when she makes bread.

Her grandmother bakes the bread in a microwave oven.

Answers Berenices doesn’t live with her uncle.

Berenices doesn’t have a turtle.

Her older sister doesn’t go to school.

Her grandmother doesn’t sit in a chair when she makes bread.

Her grandmother doesn’t bake the bread in a microwave oven.

Do Not (Don’t) When do we use don’t?

I We

You You

They

Sometimes we use do not (don’t)

I don’t live in Michoacan.

You don’t live in a sanctuary.

We don’t go to the mill.

You don’t harvest crops.

They don’t dust away ashes from the oven.

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negative!

I help around the house with dishes.

You stay home from school sometimes to help your family.

My grandparents speak otomi.

My friends and I speak otomi.

My children do chores around the house.

Compare Berenices Write 5 sentences about

what Berenices does, but another child doesn’t do.

Write 5 sentences about what Berenices’ grandparents do, but you don’t do.