Question

Convert these positive statements into negative statements. You may change the verbs or the other words
1 There are many cupcakes in the refrigerator.
There are not many cupcakes in the refrigerator.
 2. Sneha will be going to Auroville tomorrow
 3. This movie ranks as one of my all-time favourites
 4. Jacob wanted to go to the concert yesterday
 5. My friends and I were planning to enrol for these drama classes.

Answer 1

Hint: You are told by a positive sentence (PS) that anything is like that. A phrase is called a negative sentence (NS) that tells you something is not so. It involves a negative word such as no, never, no, no one, no one, no one, no one, or a negative verb such as no or can't or won't.

Complete step by step answer:
2. “Sneha will be going to Auroville tomorrow” in this sentence we will put ‘not’ with helping verb ‘will’. So its negative form will be- Sneha will not be going to Auroville tomorrow.
3. “This movie ranks as one of my all-time favourites”. Use of does not as a helping verb will make this sentence negative. So its negative form will be- This movie does not rank as one of my all-time favourites.
4.” Jacob wanted to go to the concert yesterday.” The sentence is past indefinite so the use of did wit not will make it negative in nature. So its negative form will be- Jacob did not want to go to the concert yesterday.
5. “My friends and I were planning to enrol for these drama classes.” We can make this sentence negative by using not with the helping verb. So its negative form will be My friends and I were not planning to enrol for these drama classes.

Note:
Adding the word not (or the contracted form -n't) is the most common way of converting a positive statement into a negative statement in English. The word not is typically put after a supporting verb in a declarative sentence (such as a variant of do, have, or be).