Make negative or affirmative sentence

Make Negative / Affirmative Sentence

A) Using opposite words- 

1) This is not good.

Ans- This is bad.

2) The prince is cruel.

Ans- The prince is not kind.

B) Using fail to, fails to, failed to / do not, does not, did not

1) Ram does not understand her.

Ans- Ram fails to understand her.

2) She did not kill the cat.

Ans- She failed to kill a cat.

3) I do not come.

Ans- I fail to come.

C) Using as well as, not only – - - - but also –

1) They are not only clever but also rich.

Ans- They are clever as well as rich.

2) He was strong as well as kind.

Ans- He was not only strong but also kind.

D) Using too - - -to / so - - -that –

1) She is too tired to walk.

Ans- She is so tired that she cannot walk.

2) They are so lazy that I cannot help them.

Ans- They are too lazy for me to help them.

E) Using unless / If - - - not

1) If you work hard, you will win.

Ans- Unless you work hard, you will not win.

2) Unless he runs fast, he will remain behind in the race.

Ans- If he does not run fast, he will remain behind in the race.

F) Changing the degree -

1) Ram is taller than Shyam.

Ans- Shyam is not as tall as Ram.

2) I am not as fat as Rahul.

Ans- Rahul is fatter than I.

G) Using cannot / couldnot or be unable to -

1) I cannot do it.

Ans- I am unable to do it.

2) He could not come.

Ans- He was unable to come.

H) Using hardly / any or no, anybody or nobody, anything or nothing

1) There are no set timings.

Ans- There are hardly any set timings.

2) Nobody liked the dance.

Ans- Hardly anybody liked the dance.

3) He had nothing to eat.

Ans- He had hardly anything to eat.

I) Using without / no / less

1) He has no children.

Ans- He is without children.

Ans- He is childless.

2) We don’t have vision.

Ans- We are without vision.

Ans- We are visionless.

J) As soon as / No sooner - - - than

1) As soon as Ram came, all stud up.

Ans- No sooner did Ram come than all stood up.

2) No sooner does she sing, she gets money.

Ans- As soon as she sings, she gets money.

H) Only / nothing but (inanimate) / none but (animate)

1) It is nothing but a primary school.

Ans- It is only a primary school

Note that :- The meaning of original sentence should not be changed while making it affirmative or negative

    
 

Use - Not only ----- but also or As well as

Use – Not only- - - but also / As well as

e.g.

1) Ram is clever and hard worker.

Ans- Ram is clever as well as hard worker.

Ans- Ram is not only clever but also hard worker.

2) I and you are fortunate to see this.

Ans- Not only I but also you are fortunate to see this.

Ans- I as well as you am fortunate to see this.

3) He and they are ready.

Ans- He as well they is ready.

Ans- Not only he but also they are ready.

4) The losers are not only the women but also the entire society.

Ans- The losers are the women as well as the entire society.

5) She was emotional and strong willed.

Ans- She was not only emotional but also strong willed.

Ans- She was emotional as well as strong willed.

6) We have Laxmi. We have Durga.

Ans- We have Laxmi as well as Durga.

Ans- We have not only Laxmi but also Durga.

7) They must be kept at home. They must be looked after.

Ans- They must be not only kept at home but also looked after.

Ans- They must be kept at home as well as looked after.

8) It was indeed a challenging job for her and for her followers.

Ans- It was indeed a challenging job not only for her but also for her followers.

Ans- It was indeed a challenging job for her as well as for her followers.

9) The nation had need of their powers and attainments.

Ans- The nation had need of not only their powers but also attainments.

Ans- The nation had need of their powers as well as attainments.

10) Its utility is steadily declining and soil quality is deteriorating.

Ans- Not only its utility is steadily declining but also soil quality is deteriorating.

Ans- Its utility is steadily declining as well as soil quality is deteriorating.

11) In sensitive areas police kept strict vigil also guiding the people.

Ans- In sensitive areas police not only kept strict vigil but also guided the people.

Ans- In sensitive areas police kept strict vigil as well as guided the people.

Rules- 1) Write common words only one time. 2) Write ‘not only’ and ‘but also’ before each uncommon words. 3) Write ‘not only’ before word which comes before ‘as well as’ or ‘and’. 4) Write ‘but also’ in place of ‘as well as’ or ‘and’.     5) When subjects are joined by ‘as well as’, use verb according to first subject.

Use- Can,Could or Be able to

Use- - Can, Could or Be able to

e.g.(Use – be able to)

1) You can help the poor.

Ans- You are able to help the poor.

2) Gangu can dance on the stage.

Ans- Gangu is able to dance on stage.

3) I can run fast at any time

Ans- I am able to run fast at any time.

4) Ramu could manage it.

Ans- Ramu was able to manage it.

5) They cannot sell the goods.

Ans- They arenot able to sell the goods.

6) They couldnot sell the goods.

Ans- They werenot able to sell the goods.

7) I cannot come.

Ans- I am not able to come.

8) Can they work hard?

Ans- Are they able to work hard?

9) Can’t she accept the idea?

Ans- Isn’t she able to accept the idea?

10) Couldn’t they catch the bus?

Ans- Weren’t they able to catch the bus?

e.g. (Use – can or could)

1) He was able to run fast.

Ans- He could run fast.

2) They are able to paint a picture.

Ans- They can paint a picture.

3) They were able to carry the load.

Ans- They could carry the load.

4) Are they able to reach in time?

Ans- Can they reach in time?

5) Were they able to reach in time?

Ans- Could they reach in time?

6) Isn’t Raju able to drink milk?

Ans- Can’t Raju drink milk?

7) Wasn’t he able to start dance?

Ans- Couldn’t he start dance?

Rules- 1) ‘Be able to’ is used in place of ‘can or could’. 2) Can = am, is, are + able to. 3) Could = was, were + able to. 4) Do not use ‘be” in the sentence.

Use - If --------- not or Unless

Use-: If---------not or Unless

(A)  When If-sentence is negative-

  

e.g.   (Use- Unless)

1)  If he does not run fast, he will miss the train.

Ans- Unless he runs fast, he will miss the train.

2)  If she did not catch the ball, she would be punished.

Ans- Unless she caught the ball, she would be punished.

3)  If you are lucky, you will not fail.

Ans- Unless you are lucky, you will fail.

4)  If we are not fair to any one, the world cannot be fair to us.

Ans- Unless we are fair to any one, the world cannot be fair to us.

5)  If you are brave, you will not fear.

Ans- Unless you are brave, you will fear.

6)  You are likely to be punished, if you don’t express regret.

Ans- Unless you express regret, you are likely to be punished.

7) If they do not work hard, they will not win.

Ans- Unless they work hard, they will not win.

Rules :-

  1) Write 'Unless' in place of  'If'.

  2) Remove ‘not’ from If-sentence.

  3) If there are two ‘not’, remove only one.

  4) When ‘do not’ is removed, there is no change in the next  verb.  

      When ‘does not’ is removed, add ‘–s or –es’ to the next verb.

      When ‘did not’ is removed, make past form of the next verb.

(B) When If- sentence is affirmative—  

        

e.g. (Use-Unless)

1) If you are lucky, you will win.

Ans- Unless you are lucky, you will not win.

2) If you work hard, you will get money.

Ans- Unless you work hard, you will not get money.

3) I shall read this news, if you allow me.

Ans- I shall not read this news, unless you allow me.

4) Tree nesting birds live only if there are trees.

Ans- Tree nesting birds do not live unless there are trees.

5) If it increases the sale of goods, industry prospers.

Ans- Unless it increases the sale of goods, industry does not prosper.

6) If Raju caught the bus, he would reach in time.

Ans- Unless Raju caught the bus, he would not reach in time.

7) If Seeta sings a song, she will win the prize.

Ans- Unless Seeta sings a song, she will win the prize.

Rules :-

    1) Write ‘If’ in place of ‘Unless’.
    2) Write 'If-clause' as it is.

    3) Write ‘not’ after the auxiliary verb of second clause.

    4) When there is no auxiliary verb use ‘do, does, did’.

 (C) Use- If- - - not

   

e.g.   

1)  Unless you work hard, you will fail.

Ans- If you do not work hard, you will fail.

2)  Unless he works hard, he will not pass.

Ans- If he does not work hard, he will not pass.

3)  Unless he worked hard, he would not earn money.

Ans- If he did not work hard, he would not earn money.

4)  Unless you start singing, you will not get prize.

Ans- If you do not start singing, you will not get prize.

5) Unless she accepts the proposal, I will not come.

Ans- If she does not accept the proposal I will not come.

6) Unless they bring the news, she will not make meal.

Ans- If they don’t bring the news, she will not make meal.

7) Unless you are brave, you will not do that job.

Ans- If you are not brave, you will not do that job.

(D)  For clause having without- -

                  
 Use – If - - - no / Unless

e.g.

1) Without freedom, we have no civilization.

Ans- If there is no freedom, we have no civilization.

Ans- Unless there is freedom, we have no civilization.

2) Without water, all living things die.

Ans- If there is no water, all living things die.

Ans- Unless there is water, all living things die.

3) Without Nile, Egypt would be a desert.

Ans- If there is were Nile, Egypt would be a desert.

Ans- Unless there were Nile, Egypt would be a desert.

4) The human body cannot function properly without specific nutrients.

Ans- The human body cannot function properly if there are no specific nutrients.

Ans- The human body cannot function properly, unless there are specific nutrients.

5) Without money, I will not become successful.

Ans- If there is no money, I will not become successful.

Ans- Unless there is money, I will not become successful.

6) Without books, Rahul cannot study.

Ans- If there are no books, Rahul cannot study.

Ans- Unless there are books, Rahul cannot study.

7) Without music, I cannot start dance.

Ans- If there is no music, I cannot start dance.

Ans- Unless there is music, I cannot start dance.

Rules –

1) Write ‘If’ or ‘Unless’ in place of ‘without’.

2) Take subject and verb like- ‘there is, there are, there was, there were’.

3) Write ‘no’ after verb in 'If-clause'. For 'Unless – clause' do not use 'no or not' after verb.

4) Write second clause as it is.

Note That :-

  ‘No’ is adjective while ‘Not’ is adverb. So before ‘noun’ use ‘no’ and before ‘verb, article, adjective’ use ‘not’.

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List of Antonyms

List of Antonyms (Opposite words)

Word	Antonym	Word	Antonym
Ability	Inability	Adopt	Reject
Appreciate	Depreciate	Arrogant	Humble
Attract	Repel	Accept	Reject
Acquit	Convict	Ancient	Modern
Arrival	Departure	Artificial	Natural
Agree	Disagree	Able	Unable
Alive	Dead	Attack	Counter attack
Any one	No one	Anything	Nothing
Attack	Defend	Belief	Doubt
Bold	Timid	Blame	Praise
Bright	Dull	Busy	Lazy, idle
Beautiful	Ugly	Big	Small
Care	Careless	Confess	Deny
Credit	Discredit	Comic	Tragic
Confidence	Diffidence	Create	Destroy
Compatible	Incompatible	Conceal	Reveal
Continue	Terminate	Cruel	Kind
Competent	Incompetent	Contract	Expand
Complete	Incomplete	Conductor	Non conductor
Danger	Safety	Definite	Vague
Descend	Ascend	Discourage	Encourage
Despair	Hope	Delete	Insert
Decrease	Increase	Delight	Sorrow
Destruction	Construction	Deep	Shallow
Did not	Failed to	Does not	Fails to
Dense	Sparse	Distant	Near
Difficult	Easy	Enemy	Friend
Exterior	Interior	Eager	Indifferent
Ease	Disquiet	Enough	Deficient
Eligible	Ineligible	External	Internal
Economical	Extravagant	Early	Late
Entrance	Exit	Fair	Foul
Equal	Unequal	Flexible	Rigid
Foreign	Native	Frequent	Unusual
Freedom	Slavery	Familiar	Strange
Fresh	Stale	Front	Back
Formal	Informal	Forgive	Punish
Forward	Primitive	Funny	Serious
Fortune	Misfortune	Genuine	False
Guilty	Innocent	Gather	Disperse
Happiness	Sorrow	Hate	Love
Healthy	Sick, weak	Heavy	Light
Increase	Decrease	Injustice	Justice
Industrious	Lazy	Indecent	Decent
Incapable	Capable	Informal	Formal
Infinite	Finite	Joy	Sorrow
Just	Unjust	Jump	Sink, drop
Knowledge	Ignorance	Liberty	Slavery
Liquid	Solid	Late	Alive
Loyal	Disloyal	Last	First, primary
Leader	Follower	Loyalty	Disloyalty
Leave	Hold	Like	Hate, dislike
Liberty	Slavery	Mighty	Weak
Lucky	Unlucky	Literate	Illiterate
Mobile	Stationary	Mature	Immature
Many	Few	Masculine	Feminine
Miserly, mean	Generous	Mild	Stern
Meager	Plentiful	Mandatory	Optional
Moist	Dry	Normal	Abnormal
Moral	Amoral	Neat	Untidy
Noise	Peace	Order	Disorder
Offer	Withdraw	Obedient	Disobedient
Old	New	Only	Many
Occasional	Everyday	Oral	Inscribed
Omit	Include	Pride	Humility
Praise	Abuse	Pleasure	Pain
Painful	Soothing	Punishment	Reward
Precious	Cheap	Partial	Fair, just
Persuade	Dissuade	Practice	Mal practice
Possible	Impossible	Questionable	Sure, certain
Quick	Slow	Sin	Virtue
Question	Reply	Regular	Irregular
Rich	Poor	Social	Anti-social
Same	Unlike	Thankful	Thankless
Uniform	Varied	Vulgar	Cultured
Vision	Blindness	Vacant	Occupied
Visitor	Host	Warmth	Coldness
Rare	Common	Religious	Irreligious
Shy	Impudent	Scared	Profane
Tender	Strong	Theory	Practice
Take	Reject	Tell	Hide , conceal
Taste	Tasteless	Welcome	Offend, insult
Wet	Dry	Wide	Narrow
Waste	Save	Wealthy	Poverty
Worth	Worthless	Use	Useless
Young	Old, aged	True	False
Little	Much	Everybody	Nobody
Ever / Always	Never / Sometimes	only	Not more than (countable)
Only	None but (animate)	only	Nothing but (inanimate)
Very	At all	No one	Any one
Refuse	Allow	Nothing	Anything

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Opposite Words: Antonyms

Word	Opposite  Words
Awake	Asleep
Child	Adult
Man	Woman
Modern	Ancient
Rude	Polite
Shiny	Dull
Skinny	Fat
Tight	Loose
Visitor	Host
Top	Bottom
Junior	Senior
Peace	War
Truth	Lie
Unity	Division
Useful	Useless
Powerful	Weak
Honest	Dishonest
Fancy	Plain
Deep	Shallow
Friend	Enemy
Pretty	Ugly
Sharp	Blunt
Ability	Inability
Happy	Unhappy
Import	Export
Interior	Exterior
Maximum	Minimum
Include	Exclude
Junior	Senior
Above	Below
Majority	Minority
Optimist	Pessimist
Superior	Inferior
Accept	Refuse
Civilized	Uncivilized
Big	Small
Acquire	Lose
Ancient	Modern
Agree	Disagree
Alive	Dead
Barren	Fertile
Admire	Despise
Blunt	Sharp
Bold	Timid
Bright	Dim
Broad	Narrow
Care	Neglect
Confess	Deny
Cool	Warm
Broad	Narrow
Bold	Timid
Clean	Dirty
Cruel	Kind
Domestic	Wild
Difficult	Easy
Dangerous	Safe
Dark	Bright
Death	Birth
Debit	Credit
Early	Late
Earn	Spend
Empty	Full
False	True
Guilty	Innocent
Fine	Coarse
Freedom	Slavery
Fat	Thin
Foolish	Wise
Fresh	Stale
Fear	Courage
Guilty	Innocent
Gain	Loss
Good	Bad
High	Low
Humble	Proud/arrogant
Honour	Dishonour
Joy	Sorrow
Knowledge	Ignorance
Kind	Cruel
Lie	Truth
Little	Much
Masculine	Feminine
Make	Break
Natural	Artificial
Noise	Silence
Oral	Written
Pride/arrogance	Humility
Presence	Absence
Profit	Loss
Prose	Poetry
Quick	Slow
Receive	Give
Reject	Accept
Ripe	Raw
Rough	Smooth
Remember	Forget
Rich	Poor
Sharp	Dull
Tragedy	Comedy
General	Particular
Victory	Defeat
Wild	Domestic/tame
Weak	Strong
Wisdom	Folly
Youth	Aged
Give	Take
Laugh	Cry
Smile	Frown
Buy	Sell
Here	There
This	That
Never	Always
Stop	Start
Wrong	Right
Tight	Loose
Love	Hate
Throw	Catch
Yes	No
Forward	Backward
Stand	Sit
Lost	Found
Bad	Good
Before	After
Boy	Girl
Even	Odd
Fast	Slow
Full	Empty
Happy	Sad
Hard	Easy
Hot	Cold
In	Out
Light	Dark
Love	Hate
Little	Big
More	Less
Night	Day
On	Off
Open	Close
Tall	Short
Up	Down
Wet	Dry
Brief	Long
Blank	Completed
Dim	Bright
Early	Late
Entrance	Exit
Far	Near
Funny	Serious
Give	Take
Healthy	Sick
Heavy	Light
Inside	Outside
Kind	Cruel
Laugh	Cry
Left	Right
Liquid	Solid
Normal	Strange
Opposite	Same
Rich	Poor
Start	End
Natural	Artificial
Sunny	Cloudy
Sweet	Sour
Thick	Thin
Tiny	Huge
Victory	Defeat
Visible	Invisible
Wide	Narrow
Ask	Reply
Best	Worst

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Activity: Make Opposite words

Different verb forms

Plural forms of Nouns

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Activity No.1

Choose the alternative showing the correct negative or affirmative sentence having the same meaning which is given in the sentence.

1) Close the door.

i) Do not close the door.                                            

ii) Does not close the door.

iii) Do not open the door.                                          

iv) Does not open the door.

2) The place is occupied.

i) The place is empty.                                                 

ii) The place is not occupied.

iii) The place is not empty.                                        

iv) The place is not full.

3) They insulted all.

i) They welcomed all.                                                

ii) They did not welcome all.

iii) They did not insult all.                                          

iv) They did welcome all.

4) She does not tell everything.

i) She tells everything.                                               

ii) She speaks everything.

iii) She hides everything.                                           

iv) She expresses everything.

5) Only he can play good cricket.

i) None but he can play good cricket.                        

ii) Nothing but he can play good cricket.

iii) No but he can play good cricket.                          

iv) Never but he can play good cricket.

6) He was always punctual

i) He was always late.                                                

ii) He was not late.

iii) He was never late.                                                

iv) He was not always late.

7) He wants much water.

i) He does not want less water.                                             

ii) He did not want less water.

iii) He does not want much water.                            

iv) He never wants much water.

8) We have won the match.

i) We lost the match.                                                 

ii) We do not lose the match.

iii) We did not lose the match.                                              

iv) We have not lost the match.

9) The area is not wide.

i) The area is narrow.                                                 

ii) The area is not narrow.

iii) The area is always narrow.                                               

iv) The area is usually narrow.

10) Sham won the race.

i) Sham lost the race.                                                 

ii) Sham did not win the race.

iii) Sham did not lose the race.                                              

iv) Sham does not lose the race.

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Answer-

1)

iii) Do not open the door.                                          

2)

iii) The place is not empty.                                        

3)

ii) They did not welcome all.

4)

iii) She hides everything.                                           

5)

i) None but he can play good cricket.                        

6)

iii) He was never late.                                                

7)

ii) He does not want less water.

8)

iii) We have not lost the match.                                              

9)

i) The area is narrow.                                                 

10)

iii) Sham did not lose the race.                   

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