"I don't know what I'd do without you"
"I'm not know what I'd do without you"
Are these sentences correct?
What are the rules to use "not" in a sentence?
To what is not pointing in the above sentences?
auxiliary-verbsdo-supportnegation
"I don't know what I'd do without you"
"I'm not know what I'd do without you"
Are these sentences correct?
What are the rules to use "not" in a sentence?
To what is not pointing in the above sentences?
Best Answer
When you are negating with not, look at the finite verb in the clause, the one that carries person and tense.
If it is an auxiliary verb (the first verb in a verbal construction) or a form of be, you may simply add not:
Otherwise, you require DO-support:
Until the twentieth century it was common to negate lexical HAVE without DO-support, but this is disappearing. Even earlier any verb might be negated without DO-support, but that died out by the nineteenth century.