10 examples of negative sentence in English grammar
Sentence is a combination of many words to express feelings or complete a certain sense. Negative sentence completely differs from affirmative sentence. A sentence requires a definite subject and verb along with other parts to complete the meaning. We can find no, not, nothing, no one, nobody, nowhere negative words with verbs in negative sentence. Negative sentence describes if some action is not happening, something does not exist and any subject which does not possess certain quality. Students can know more about this sentence from formation rules and its application in examples.
Negative sentence is used to refer an action of refusing something or denying something in certain context. Negative sentence always contains words like no, not, nothing, no one, nowhere etc. to form the negative sense. It can be used for denying the predicate of a subject, denoting the absence of something, expressing something, contradictory of something etc. negative words are added to the verb in a sentence. When there is be verb or do verb in a sentence not will be placed just after the verb. When there is modal auxiliary verbs like can, could, may, might, will, would etc. not will be used after these verbs. When there is both auxiliary verb and main verb, not will be placed in the middle of these two verbs.
Examples:
- I do not want to attend the party tomorrow.
- I have not read the book yet.
- My mother has not finished cooking.
- You should not delay in completing your home tasks.
- I will not go out today evening.
- My brother was not bothered about helping me.
- She was not much interested in learning new skills.
- I do not want to give her any advice furthermore.
- She may not know about the details of the course.
- I could not learn any new language in childhood.
All the sentences given above are examples of negative sentence.