NEGATIVE QUESTION – English Grammar Profiler

Point 35 in the category of QUESTIONS is defined as:

NEGATIVE QUESTIONS with uncontracted ‘not’ to emphasise a point in an argument.

1 COULD IT NOT BE ? 249 2 DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND ? 227 3 DOES IT NOT MATTER ? 140

4 DO YOU NOT KNOW ? 94

5 ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? 94 (popularized by the movie ‘Gladiator’)

6 COULD THEY NOT BE ? 83 7 WOULD YOU NOT AGREE ? 63 8 DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND ? 57 9 COULD YOU NOT BE ? 55 10 CAN IT NOT BE ? 55 11 HAVE YOU NOT HEARD ? 52 12 IS IT NOT WORKING ? 49 13 DO YOU NOT SEE ? 47 14 DO YOU NOT AGREE ? 46 15 COULD HE NOT BE ? 43 16 DOES IT NOT WORK ? 42 17 SHOULD YOU NOT DO ? 39 18 HAVE YOU NOT KNOWN ? 39 19 DO YOU NOT REMEMBER ? 36 20 DO YOU NOT LIKE ? 34 21 HAVE THEY NOT HEARD ? 33 22 AM I NOT UNDERSTANDING ? 31

23 DO WE NOT BLEED ? 29

24 DO YOU NOT THINK ? 29 25 AM I NOT SEEING ? 28 26 CAN YOU NOT BE ? 28 27 HAVE YOU NOT READ ? 28 28 SHALL HE NOT SEE ? 26 29 DO YOU NOT CARE ? 26 30 CAN THEY NOT BE ? 25 31 AM I NOT GETTING ? 25 32 COULD YOU NOT KNOW ? 25 33 DO THEY NOT UNDERSTAND ? 24 34 DID YOU NOT LIKE ? 23 35 DID YOU NOT KNOW ? 23 36 DO YOU NOT BELIEVE ? 21 37 COULD I NOT BE ? 21 38 COULD HE NOT KNOW ? 20 39 COULD SHE NOT BE ? 20 40 SHALL HE NOT HEAR ? 19 41 DO YOU NOT GET ? 19 42 DID I NOT KNOW ? 19 43 AM I NOT DOING ? 18 44 DO WE NOT KNOW ? 16 45 COULD I NOT GO ? 16 46 CAN YOU NOT READ ? 16 47 SHOULD IT NOT BE ? 16 48 WOULD IT NOT BE ? 15 49 COULD I NOT KNOW ? 15

50 HAST THOU NOT KNOWN ? 14