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LING 2221 Mount Royal University Type of Negation Sentence Exercises

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1. Except for this year, summer rarely arrives in Alberta in early June.

2. Why does it always rain so much during the spring?

3. No roses have bloomed yet in anybody’s yard, have they?

4. Where were black composters being given away for free?

5. How those extremely fragile flowers don’t like our very late frosts!

6. Will spring bulbs get sold by that greenhouse?

7. Don’t plant your tomatoes yet!

8. The tree-lot across the street from the garden-centre won’t ever be opened.

9. What a beautiful display of blooms you will have in your garden!

10. Maybe, it might keep on feeling like summer for months.

For each of the above sentences identify whether:

  • it is positive or negative;
  • it is active or passive;
  • it is a declarative, interrogative, imperative, or an exclamative.
  • For all interrogatives,

  • state whether it is a yes-no, wh, or tag question
  • for all questions that involve inversion identify whether
  • o a modal verb was inverted

    o an auxiliary verb was inverted

    o BE as the main verb was inverted, or it o DO Support was needed.

    For all negatives, identify the type of negation.

    For all exclamatives indicate whether • a noun,

  • an adjective,
  • an adverb or
  • a verb phrase is being exclaimed
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