Pronouns in negative sentence

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Pronouns in negative sentence

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Are these sentences correct ?

We can not start the meeting because not everybody has arrived.

They have no house. But they lost not everything in the earthquake.

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Re: Pronouns in negative sentence

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#1, yes.

#2, no, but you could say e.g. '...not eveything was lost...'
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