For Primary Children 
Nageswar Rao. A 
Teacher of English
‘You can’t do it.’ 
‘Yes, I can.’
She can’t make 
her child read 
herself. 
‘Yes, I can.’
Why did you beat 
‘No I didn’t.’ the egg?
Why did you 
‘No I didn’t.’ break the clock?
Disagreements with 
affirmative statements 
are made with No + 
pronoun + auxiliary + 
n’t/not. 
“But” is often used in disagreement 
with a question or an assumption.
Disagreements with 
negative statements 
are made with Yes / 
but + pronoun + 
auxiliary.
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