Question

Exercise
Change the following negative sentences into affirmative sentences.
1.He did not dare to challenge me.
2.They have not promised to pay higher wages.
3.My mother and grandmother did not go to church every day.
4.My friend does not write short stories.
5.He did not look at the pictures on the wall.

Answer 1

Hint:
- Affirmative or Positive sentences and Negative sentences are the two main types of sentences.
- A positive sentence clearly states a fact. Any affirmative statement qualifies. An affirmative sentence reflects the truthfulness of a claim.
- In English, the adverb "not" is usually used after the finite verb to make a sentence negative.

Complete answer:
"Birds soar," "Rabbits race," and "Fish swim" are all affirmative sentences with active subjects that make a constructive argument about the noun in motion. Declarative statements are negative phrases. That is, they pass on the knowledge that they consider to be correct. The word "not" is normally inserted after the supporting verb to form negative sentences. "Am," "is," "are," "was," and "were" are three of the most widely used supporting verbs.

Negative substances can be changed into affirmative and vice-versa. The key point to be noted while changing the negative sentence to affirmative one is the meaning shouldn’t be changed at any cost. For example, if we got a statement: Rahul is not kind.

Here we need to change it to affirmative. The words “not kind” can be replaced by unkind or cruel. So, the affirmative statement can be
Rahul is unkind or Rahul is cruel.
Hence, by this method, we can change the given negative statements into affirmative ones

The answers are given below:
1) He refrained from challenging me.
2) They have denied the promise to pay higher wages.
3) My mother and grandmother go to the church every other day.
4) My friend writes long stories.
5) He avoided looking at the pictures on the wall.

Note:
- In an affirmative sentence, if the word “Both and” appears after some number or age, we would write “Not only but also” instead of the word [Both and ] in a negative sentence.
- You should make the sentences interrogative negative if they are fundamental truths.