What are examples of negation words?
The most common negative words are no and not. Other negative words include: neither, never, no one, nobody, none, nor, nothing, nowhere: She's never been abroad.
- Rick is not here.
- Peter has no books.
- Sam has never been there.
- John did nothing for this project.
- Neither I nor you attended the program.
- None of us liked the movie.
- Pam has rarely cooked any food.
- Richard is buying unnecessary things.
In simpler terms, negation defines the polar opposition of affirmative, denies the existence or vaguely – a refutation. This is also known as “Not”. Classical logic resembles negation with truth function which takes truth to falsity and is perfectly capable of running the opposite operation.
The Negation Rule: In English, in order to claim that something is not true, you form a negative sentence by adding the word not after the first auxiliary verb in the positive sentence.
- not.
- never.
- neither.
- neither/nor.
- barely.
- hardly.
- scarcely.
- seldom.
- I am not flying to England.
- That isn't the way to Nashville.
- They are not from Ecuador.
- He wasn't eating white rice.
- We were not sad when he moved away.
- They don't practice yoga.
- She did not like Bikhram yoga.
- He doesn't have to commute to work.
A negative is a word or phrase that shows you reject or disagree with something. We use negatives all the time in regular conversation, so a lot of these words should be familiar to you.
The logical negation symbol ¬ or ~ is one of the statement connectives or operators that can be used to form new compound statements from two or more statements. It simply reverses the truth value of any statement in front of which it appears. This statement can be simple or compound.
In regard to non-standard negation, van der Auwera discusses three types: (i) prohibitive negation, (ii) non-verbal and existential negation, and (iii) negative pronouns and adverbs.
For example: I do not have an extra pencil to lend you. She does not know anything about the change in the seating allocation. They did not participate in the science quiz competition.
What makes a statement a negation?
What is Negation of a Statement? Negation of a statement can be defined as the opposite of the given statement provided that the given statement has output values of either true or false. In simple words, we can get the negation of a statement just by changing the meaning of the statement to its exact opposite.
: the action or logical operation of negating or making negative. : a negative statement, judgment, or doctrine. especially : a logical proposition formed by asserting the falsity of a given proposition see Truth Table. : something that is the absence of something actual : nonentity.
Types of Sentence Negation
"It is usual to distinguish between two types of non-affixal sentence negation in English: firstly, negation with not or -n't; and secondly, negation with the negative words never, neither, nobody, no, none, nor, nothing and nowhere.
The development of functions of negation follows the sequence: rejection, non-existence, prohibition and denial.
| Statement | Negation |
|---|---|
| "A and B" | "not A or not B" |
| "if A, then B" | "A and not B" |
| "For all x, A(x)" | "There exist x such that not A(x)" |
| "There exists x such that A(x)" | "For every x, not A(x)" |
Nagarjuna's eightfold negations are that there is no becoming, no not being, no annihilation, no persistence, no unity, no diversity, no coming, and no departure.
The logical opposite of "more than half" is "less than or equal to half." Therefore, the negation of "most" is "50% or less." You might be wondering, what about "all" statements?
Three main types of negative marking are identified: morphological negation, negative particles and negative verbs.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TIPS
The best thing to do is give them a FULL answer, not just yes or no. You should answer, "No, I don't". Or "No, but I like other nuts." "No (or yes), I'm allergic to peanuts."
Negative: I'm not a morning person. Positive: I prefer to work during the evenings and nights. Negative: A lion is no braver than he. Positive: He is as brave as lion.
Is however a negation?
Unlike "however", which is based on a positive-to-negative ordering of information, "nevertheless" and "nonetheless" require an opposite ordering of information, negative-to-positive.
Sentence: Jamilee went to the grocery store. Negative: Jamilee never went to the grocery store. Sentence: Gina laughed when she saw the huge pile of laundry. Negative: Gina did not laugh when she saw the huge pile of laundry.
Consider the statement "If I am rich, then I am happy." For this statement to be false, I would need to be rich and not happy. If A is the statement "I am rich" and B is the statement "I am happy,", then the negation of "A B" is "I am rich" = A, and "I am not happy" = not B.
Some adverbs (e.g. hardly, little, never, only, scarcely and seldom) have a negative meaning. When we use these at the beginning of the clause, we invert the subject and verb: Hardly had we left the hotel when it started to pour with rain.
The word order is, therefore: subject + auxiliary + not + main verb. A negative sentence may contain a modal verb and one or more auxiliaries as well.
The symbol (¬) resembles a dash with a tail or the upper half of a rectangle. The arithmetic subtraction symbol (−) and tilde (~) are also used to indicate logical negation. The logical negation symbol looks like a dash with a tail or the top half of a rectangle. The negation symbol is a unary logical operator.
Main verbs can be made negative by placing "not" directly after the auxiliary verb in a conjugation. The sentence structure for a negative verb conjugation is: Subject + auxiliary verb + "not" + main verb + object[s]. The combination of "not" and an auxiliary verb is often contracted in English.
'Never' is therefore an Adverb of Negation. Adverbs of Affirmation or Negation are: no longer, hardly, not very, never, surely, certainly, definitely, probably, really, clearly, exactly, truly, doubtlessly, obviously, almost, rarely, invalidly, contradictorily, scarcely etc.
We use the following negative words for negation:
No, not, nothing, never, no one, none, nobody, nowhere, neither, neither…. nor, not either, none of, not any etc.
- He is cleaning the house.
- She loves the cool breeze.
- Every day she visits the temple.
- She gave a presentation to her father.
- She was watching a movie when I called.
- The dog is eating the bones.
- I like it a lot when it rains in the evening.
- The teacher punished me.