Hamster's swollen bottom - posted in Ailments & Injuries: Hi all,My hamster's lower abdomen became swollen overnight.The swell had been there since Mon.It is walking in a hunched manner.Its appetite seems to have decreased but it is still active.I've read about constipation and i'm not sure if this is the case.Below are some pictures of my hamster.Please advise.
The adverb not is used for negation. Do you like drinking cod liver oil? No, I do not like drinking cod liver oil.
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The meaning of NOT is —used as a function word to make negative a group of words or a word. How to use not in a sentence.
NOT definition: 1. used to form a negative phrase after verbs like "be", "can", "have", "will", "must", etc…. Learn more.
NOT definition: (used to express negation, denial, refusal, or prohibition). See examples of not used in a sentence.
used to form the negative of the verbs be, do, and have and modal verbs like can or must and often reduced to n't She did not/didn't see him. It's not/It isn't raining.
Not is often shortened to n't in spoken English, and added to the auxiliary or modal verb. For example, 'did not' is often shortened to 'didn't'.
In this case not cannot appear after the verb; some authorities recommend placing it before to to avoid a split infinitive, but for most speakers the forms not to do and to not do are more or less interchangeable, with the latter being mostly informal.