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2. Affirmation and negation - Wikipedia

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   For more details see English grammar § Negation. (In Middle English, the particle not could follow any verb, e.g. "I see not the horse.") In some languages, like Welsh, verbs have special inflections to be used in negative clauses. (In some language families, this may lead to reference to a negative mood.)

3. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   English grammar is the set of ... English nouns are not marked for ... Allen & Unwin. p. 820. —includes Jespersen's monographs Negation in English and ...

4. Double negative - Wikipedia

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   Discussing English grammar, the term "double negative" is often, [9] though not universally, [10] [11] applied to the non-standard use of a second negative as an intensifier to a negation. Double negatives are usually associated with regional and ethnical dialects such as Southern American English , African American Vernacular English , and ...

5. Yes and no - Wikipedia

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   Like Early Modern English, the Romanian language has a four-form system. The affirmative and negative responses to positively phrased questions are da and nu, respectively. But in responses to negatively phrased questions they are prefixed with ba (i.e. ba da and ba nu). nu is also used as a negation adverb, infixed between subject and verb ...

6. Negative verb - Wikipedia

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   The English auxiliary 'do', in combination with the negative verb, indicates whether one or multiple individuals are involved, while the verb referring to the negated activity remains non-inflected. Concluding this, ordinary verbs take the auxiliary do when negated by not .

7. Attraction (grammar) - Wikipedia

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   This tends to happen in English with subject-verb agreement, especially where the subject is separated from the verb in a complex noun phrase structure. It can also refer to case attraction, which assigns features based on grammatical roles, or in dialectal forms of English, negative attraction which extends negation particles. [2]