Question

Change the negative sentence into affirmative sentence without changing the meaning of the sentence:
I do not believe you.

a) I disbelieve you.
b) I cannot believe you.
c) I do not disbelieve you.
d) You are not worthy of my belief.

Answer 1

Hint: An affirmative sentence is a positive sentence opposite of a negative sentence and it expresses an opposing idea. An affirmative sentence does not contain negative words like ‘no’, ‘not’, ‘never’ etc.

Complete step by step solution:

While changing a negative sentence to an affirmative by removing the negative words, care must be taken to change the verb into a word that is opposite in meaning. Option a “I disbelieve you.” is an affirmative sentence, it does not contain any negative word. The verb, 'believe' has been changed to it is a word which is opposite in meaning, 'disbelieve'. This sentence has the same meaning as the original sentence. Hence, option a is the correct answer.

Option b, c, d, are incorrect as these sentences contain negative words i.e. cannot, not, not respectively.

Note: While changing the negative sentence into affirmative, the meaning is altered as the sentence changes from negative to positive.