Hey, all English teachers and native English speakers! I would like to ask a question. Have you ever known transferred negation? For object clauses such as think, suppose, believe, expect, seem, imagine, etc., the negative word not in the main clause is usually transferred to the object clause. How do we use it properly?

Here is a sentence.

I think I would not enjoy talking about him. Should we write it as👇
I don’t think I would enjoy talking about him?

Thank you very much!

Question

Hey, all English teachers and native English speakers! I would like to ask a question. Have you ever known transferred negation? For object clauses such as think, suppose, believe, expect, seem, imagine, etc., the negative word not in the main clause is usually transferred to the object clause. How do we use it properly?

Here is a sentence.

I think I would not enjoy talking about him. Should we write it as👇
I don’t think I would enjoy talking about him?

Thank you very much!

Answer

I think in that in this case we would use, I don’t want to talk about him.

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