New language: Negative with to be Vocabulary: not New skill: saying what things are not You make a sentence negative by using not or its short form n’t. Negative sentences with the verb to be have different rules than negative with other verbs. Key language: add not to the verb to be to make the sentence negative. Examples: I am a farmer I am not a farmer I am a doctor I am not a doctor He is not an adult It is not five o clock They are not engineers We are not actors This is not a pig That is not my bag How to form negative with the verb to be Subject + verb + not + rest of the sentence: I am not a doctor You are not a scientist She is not a nurse He is not a physician It is not a cat We are not students You are not a secretaries They are not a teachers Examples: Jack is not a gardener She is not my sister He is not my friend That is not her car I’m not 25 years old ...