A student asked me why there could be such a sentence in the song of ‘A Certain Romance’ by Arctic Monkeys:
The point’s that there ain’t no romance around there.
Students said, ‘The theme of the song reveals that there is no romance. How come there appear two negatives, ‘ain’t’ and ‘no’？’
The reason is that in many British, American and other dialects, they use two or more negatives for a single meaning. The following is another example:
I ain’t found nobody in the room.
It has the same meaning as ‘I haven’t found anybody in the room’. Note that such use applies only in oral English, rarely in written English.
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