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Correct Double Negative Errors

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Grammar Rule

In sentences that have a negative word like not or its contracted form n't, do not use negative indefinite pronouns like nothing, nobody, and neither or the words no or none.

nothing → anything
nobody → anybody
neither → either
no → any
none → any

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When I fell off my bike at the train station, I didn't feel nothing. I didn't feel no pain, but I was bleeding a lot. Nobody stopped. I asked myself, "Doesn't nobody care? Doesn't nothing make you stop your busy lives to help another person in trouble?" I moaned. I cried. Still, nobody stopped to ask if I was okay. Neither moaning nor crying seemed to work. "Doesn't neither reach your ears?" I wondered. Nope. I was alone in a crowd. I looked in my bag for a tissue to clean the dirt from my wound. There wasn't none in there. I finally hobbled to the ticket counter and asked the person behind the glass. She didn't have none, neither.