Question

Convert into a negative sentence without changing the meaning:
I want to leave now.
a. I want to stay back.
b. I do not want to leave now.
c. I do not want to stay back.
d. No change

Answer 1

Hint: The students should remember the negation rule where 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.

Complete answer:
In the given question, we have to find out which of the options includes a negation but does not change the meaning of the given sentence.
Let us thus analyze the options given to us in this question -
Option (a.), 'I want to stay back', refers to a sentence without negation. Therefore, option (a.) is incorrect as we need a negative sentence.
Option (b.), ‘I do not want to leave now', uses the negation of the verb ‘want’. Therefore, option (b.) is incorrect as it has the complete opposite meaning of the given sentence in the question.
Option (c.), ‘I do not want to stay back', has a negation in the sentence and this sentence has the same meaning as that of the sentence in question. Therefore, option (c.) is correct as we needed a sentence that included a negation but did not change the meaning of the given sentence.
Option (d.), ‘No change', is incorrect as the given sentence does not have any negation.

Note:
 In this question, it will be helpful for the student to recall the concept of a negative sentence. A negative sentence (or statement) states that something is not true or incorrect.