POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE STATEMENTS

Changing Positive Statement to Negative Statements

Negative statements can simply be changed by adding 'not', 'never' to a sentence.

Negative sentences have the opposite meaning to positive sentences. For example:

Positive: I am used to reading all night.

Negative: I am not used to reading all night.

Positive: Abubakar sometimes drives his father's car.

Negative: Abubakar never drives his father's car.

The most important negative word is not. The word not makes a whole clause negative. It's short form is n't.

Examples:

do not - don't

has not- hasn't 

cannot- can't 

will not- won't 

Other negative words include: neither, neither...nor, never, no, nobody, nothing, nowhere, no one, etc.

Evaluation:

Change the following positive sentences to negative sentences:

Laura likes football.

The film had started.

My sister reads newspaper.

It can be done.

He is gentle.