Positive clause
This avoids ‘“wasting” your vote on a party that cannot win the seat, and boosting the chances that the party you dislike most will lose.
The clause above is, as a whole, a positive one in which:
? the relative clause that cannot win the seat is a negative one;
? the content clause that the party you dislike most will lose is a positive one.
Am I correct?
Top answer
tkacka15 Am I correct? Yes, but I don't see why you're analyzing the sentence this way in the first place. Any clause with "not" or "never" (and so on) is going to be negative, and that's pretty obvious.
- tkacka15 Am I correct?
- Yes, but I don't see why you're analyzing the sentence this way in the first place.
- Any clause with "not" or "never" (and so on) is going to be negative, and that's pretty obvious.
- Most of the time I see "affirmative" (not "positive") as the opposite of "negative", by the way, when speaking of clauses.
- Are you consulting a source book that uses the terminology "positive" and "negative"?
Get the Weekly English Kit 📬
New words, one handy idiom, and a 2-minute quiz — delivered to your inbox to keep your streak alive.
tkacka15Am I correct?
Yes, but I don't see why you're analyzing the sentence this way in the first place. Any clause with "not" or "never" (and so on) is going to be negative, and that's pretty obvious.
Most of the time I see "affirmative" (not "positive") as the opposite of "negative", by the way, when speaking of clauses. Are you consulting a sou
0
Related Questions