Question

Give examples, write briefly about different types of negation?

Answer 1

In English grammar, negation is a grammatical construction that contradicts (or negates) all or part of the meaning of a sentence. Also known as a negative construction or standard negation.

In standard English, negative clauses and sentences commonly include the negative particle not or the contracted negative n't. Other negative words include no, none, nothing, nobody, nowhere, and never. 

In many cases, a negative word can be formed by adding the prefix -un to the positive form of a word (as in unhappy and undecided).

Examples and Observations

"It was not singing and it was notcrying, coming up the stairs."(William Faulkner, "That Evening Sun Go Down," 1931)

"I can't remember when I wasn'tsinging out of the house."
(Irma Thomas in Talking New Orleans Music, ed. by Burt Feintuch. University Press of Mississippi, 2015)

"I bet you've never smelled a real school bus before."
(Ferris Bueller's Day Off, 1986)

"I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.(Groucho Marx)

"Never trust anyone who has notbrought a book with them."
(Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid, 2007)