By changing the auxiliary verb of the sentence into negative, we can apply Negation in a sentence.
1. Negation in tense
| 1. | Present Indefinite Tense | Do = do not/ don’t, does = does not/doesn’t. |
| 2. | Present Continuous Tense | Am = am not, is = is not/isn’t, are = are not, aren’t. |
| 3. | Present Perfect Tense | Have = have not/haven’t, has = has not/hasn’t |
| 4. | Present Perfect Continuous tense | Has been = has not been, have been = have not been |
| 5. | Past Indefinite tense | Did = did not/didn’t |
| 6. | Past Continuous tense | Was = was not/wasn’t, were = were not/ weren’t |
| 7. | Past Perfect Tense | Had = had not/hadn’t |
| 8. | Past Perfect Continuous Tense | Had been = had not been/hadn’t been |
| 9. | Future Indefinite Tense | Shall = shall not, will = will not/won’t |
| 10. | Future Continuous tense | Shall be = shall not be, will be = will not/won’t |
| 11. | Future Perfect Tense | Shall have = shall not have, will have = will not have/won’t have |
| 12. | Future Perfect Continuous Tense | Shall have been = shall not have been,will have been = will not have been/won’t have been |
Examples:
- He drives the car = He does not drive the car
- Alex ate rice = Alex did not eat rice
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