n. a syntactic construction; often considered ungrammatical in standard Modern English; in which two negatives are used where one is needed
He won't go nowhere includes a double negative.
He won't go nowhere includes a double negative.
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2negatives; two negatives; use of 2negatives
2positives
1 syllables
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