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  2. Affirmation and negation - Wikipedia

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    The affirmative, in an English example such as "the police chief here is a woman", declares a simple fact, in this case, it is a fact regarding the police chief and asserts that she is a woman. [5] In contrast, the negative, in an English example such as "the police chief here is not a man", is stated as an assumption for people to believe. [ 5 ]

  3. Simple present - Wikipedia

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    The simple present is the most commonly used verb form in English, accounting for more than half of verbs in spoken English. [1] It is called "simple" because its basic form consists of a single word (like write or writes), in contrast with other present tense forms such as the present progressive (is writing) and present perfect (has written).

  4. Polarity item - Wikipedia

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    The actual set of contexts that license particular polarity items is not as easily defined as a simple distinction between affirmative and negative sentences. Baker [2] noted that double negation may provide an acceptable context for positive polarity items: I can't believe you don't fancy her somewhat. John doesn't have any potatoes

  5. Lincoln–Douglas debate format - Wikipedia

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    The Negative prepares the attack against the Affirmative's case. Negative Constructive (and first negative Rebuttal) 7 NC (1NR) The Negative (almost always) reads a pre-written case and (almost always) moves on to address the Affirmative case. Cross Examination 3 CX The Affirmative asks the Negative questions. Preparation Time - Affirmative up to 4

  6. Yes and no - Wikipedia

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    ' "not is" ') are in fact the affirmative and negative forms of the same verb 'हो' (ho; lit. ' "is" ') and hence is only used when the question asked contains said verb. [55] In other contexts, one must repeat the affirmative or negative forms of the verb being asked, for instance "तिमीले खाना खायौँ?"

  7. Structure of policy debate - Wikipedia

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    The First Negative Constructive (1NC) is the first speech given by the negative team and the second speech in the round. It is given by the first negative speaker. The 1NC will generally present all of the major arguments which the negative plans to present in the round. Off-case arguments made include topicality, disadvantages, counter plans ...

  8. Sentence function - Wikipedia

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    An exclamative is a sentence type in English that typically expresses a feeling or emotion, but does not use one of the other structures. It often has the form as in the examples below of [WH + Complement + Subject + Verb], but can be minor sentences (i.e. without a verb) such as [WH + Complement] How wonderful!.

  9. Present tense - Wikipedia

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    Simple present : The simple present tense is employed in a sentence to represent an action or event that takes place in the present regularly. Present perfect : The present perfect tense is utilized for events that begin in the past and continue to the moment of speaking, or to express the result of a past situation. [2]