Affirmative and Negative sentences

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Affirmative and Negative sentences

Affirmative sentences is a term used to refer to sentences that are positive. Negative sentences, on the other hand, are those sentences that refer to the non-occurrence of an action.

Transforming an Affirmative Sentence into a Negative Sentence – Rules
The first thing you will have to do is to locate the main verb in the sentence.
Once you do, the next step is to add ‘not’ after all forms of the ‘to be’ verb (am, is, are, was, were), modal verbs (will, would, shall, should, can, may, might, etc.), and for Have verb (has, have, had). You have to use the verb forms for ‘do’ followed by ‘not’ and ‘have’ to make the sentence negative.

Semi – Negative or Broad Negatives:
Barely, rarely, hardly, scarcely, seldom – these words make the sentence totally negative.
 

Affirmative Sentence

Verb

Negative Sentence

I am a teacher.

Am

I am not a teacher.

He is confident.

Is

He is not confident.

We are happy.

Are

We are not happy.

It was a good day.

Was

It was not a good day.

They were on their way to the station.

were

They were not on their way to the station.

I have a bike.

have

I do not have a bike.

We did it.

Did

We did not it. (or) We didn’t do it

Nina does her own laundry.

does

Nina does not have her own laundry.
 
Transformation of sentence with Model Auxiliaries
 

Affirmative

Verb

Negative

I can play the guitar.

Can, play

I cannot play the guitar.

She could help you with it.

Could, help

She could not help you with it.

Rahul might find it difficult to assemble the apparatus.

Might, find

Rahul might not find it difficult to assemble the apparatus.

You may find the book interesting.

May, find

You may not find the book interesting.

They will do it.

Will, do

They will not do it.
 
 

Exercise
Change the sentence into Negative:
 
1.     Tharun would know how to solve this equation.
2.     He should finish it by next week.
3.     Sharan must take care of himself.
4.     Binu needs to figure out a way to rectify this mess.
5.     I bake fresh cream cakes.
6.     He speaks Spanish.
7.     Srinivasan has filed a complaint.
8.     They had worked hard on their project.
9.     They will have found the evidence by tomorrow morning.
10.All students are talented.


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