Thursday, January 24, 2013

Negatives and its rules in English Grammar

Negatives are the words that conveys something wrong or negation. Negative sentences are the types of sentences that convey a negative meaning or negate or deny something. For example: John has never bought any cribs for babies before. Here, never is a negative word that describes that John has not bought any cribs for babies earlier. There are rules of negation that are used in English grammar. Let’s have a look at it in this post.

Rule 1: In English grammar, in order to negate something one needs to convey the meaning through a negative sentence. This is generally done by using the word “not” after the first auxiliary verb of the sentence.  For example:
Affirmative Sentence: Jane is buying baby seating chairs for Kitty’s daughter.
Negative Sentence: Jane is not buying baby seating chairs for Kitty’s daughter.
Affirmative Sentence: I have tried buying rye pillow for newborn from online baby store.
Negative sentence: I have not tried buying rye pillow for newborn from online baby store.

Rule 2: When an auxiliary verb is used to convert an affirmative sentence to negative sentence, the main verb is not affected. For example:
Affirmative Sentence: She is a good girl.
Negative Sentence: She is not a good girl.
Affirmative Sentence: Hari is a bad person.
Negative Sentence: Hari is not a bad person.

Rule 3: When there is no auxiliary verb in the positive sentences, then an auxiliary verb needs to be added. This happens generally for present simple and past simple tenses. For example:
Affirmative Sentence: I understand French language.
Negative Sentence: I do not understand French Language.
Affirmative Sentence: She plays football.
Negative Sentence: She doesn’t play football.
Affirmative Sentence: They know the reality beneath it.
Negative Sentence: They don’t know the reality beneath it.
These are the rules of negations used in English grammar.

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