Affirmative and Negative sentences.pptx

Affirmative and Negative Sentence

1. Affirmative-Negative sentences

2. Assertive sentence Negative Sentence Affirmative sentence A sentence without negation A sentence with negation

3. Meaning must not be changed while transforming the sentences. Example: I am intelligent.( Turn it in negative) Ans : I am not dull .

4. 1. Snehal was the only eyewitness of the murder. None but Snehal was the eyewitness of the murder. 2.The eyewitness should speak only truth. . The eyewitness should speak nothing but truth. There was no other eyewitness of the murder but Snehal . For a human being – none but For any idea or an inanimate object – nothing but Use of only

5. = Affirmative word People love Angel . People do not love devil . Negation

6. Use of ‘If’ Indication of selectio between options Unless you go fast , you will miss the show. If you do n’ t go fast you will miss the show.

7. unless = if + negation Unless and negation can’t come in the same clause. Unless you don’t go fast………

8. Use of As soon as Showing the simultaneous action As soon as the tiger saw Mogali , it attcked . No sooner did the tiger see Mogali it attcked . No sooner did the tiger saw Mogali it attcked No sooner did the tiger see Mogali it attcked

9. No sooner + verb + Subject+other words+ than+ remaining action As soon as you go home, change the position of your bed . No sooner do you go home than change the position of your bed. There is a present tense in the question, so ‘do’ is used in place of ‘did’.

10. As she was about to go, her servant approached her . No sooner was she about to go than her servant approached her. ‘Do’ or ‘did’ will come only if the action verb is there in question.

11. Points to remember for No sooner……..than Check the tense of the question Check the form of the verb Spelling -‘ th a n’ not th e n