Positive and negative sentences

Learn about sentence types, specifically affirmative and negative sentences. This course is ideal for intermediate learners.

Introduction

Some examples of ‘negative’ sentences have the word ‘no’ or ‘not’ used with a verb or an auxiliary verb.  These ‘auxiliary verbs’ include: am, are, is, do, does and can.

For example:An affirmative (positive) would be: ‘Yes, I do like olives.’

A negative would be: ‘No, I don’t like olives.’

In the above example, ‘like’ is the main verb.  ‘Do’ is the auxiliary verb, and the word not (shortened to n’t) is used to show that the meaning of the sentence is negative.

A negative transformation is when the word ‘not’ transforms an affirmative (positive) sentence into a negative one.

You will learn

1. Identifying affirmative (positive) and negative sentences
2. No and not - contractions
3. Negative transformations
4. Subject-verb agreement
5. Indefinite pronouns
6. Double negatives