Transformation of Sentences (exceptional)

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*The earth is round (Negative).-*The sun rises in the east (Negative).-*Mother reads Quran daily (Negative).-Above sentences means 'Universal truth' (first two sentences) and 'Habitual fact' (last sentence). Now, how can I transform the sentences into negative without changing of meaning. But they must be Assertive/Declarative sentence not negative-interrogative. Please, help me soon.

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

You cannot negate them without changing the meaning. The earth isn't flat does not mean that it is round.

Canadian45 · Answer

Anonymous*The earth is round (Negative)
Now, how can I transform the sentences into negative without changing of meaning. But they must be Assertive/Declarative sentence not negative-interrogative. Please, help me soon.
If you want the meaning to stay unchanged, you need two negatives.

You can say something like the following.

'The (statement)(belief) that the earth isn't round is not correct.'

The underlined negative can be considered to be the main negative in the sentence.

Does that sentence meet the requirement?

Khoff · Answer

AnonymousNow, how can I transform the sentences into negative without changing of meaning. But they must be Assertive/Declarative sentence not negative-interrogative.

Your goal here seems to be impossible for two reasons. You can't put a sentence into the negative without changing its meaning. And you can't put a sentence into the negative without it being a negative-or-interrogative sentence. I don't understand what you are trying to do.

The negative versions of your sentences would be:

The earth is not round.

The sun does not rise in the east.

Mother does not read the Quran daily.

But changing them into negatives obvious alters the meaning, and creates negative sentences instead of affirmative sentences.

Canadian45 · Answer

khoff khoff said....
Your goal here seems to be impossible for two reasons. You can't put a sentence into the negative without changing its meaning. That's why you need two negatives.

And you can't put a sentence into the negative without it being a negative-or-interrogative sentence. The OP said "negative-interrogative", no 'or'. I think (s)he meant that we can't say something like 'Isn't the earth round?'

So the only way I can see to satisfy the requirements is to say something like what I said in my first post, copied below.

'The (statement)(belief) that the earth isn't round is not correct.'

The first negative, "isn't", is part of the sentence's subject, while "not" is the main

negative in the sentence. With two negatives, the meaning of the sentence is unchanged. And the sentence is declarative, as is required.

Whether my sentence infact is what the OP was looking for is for him/her to say.

canadian45

CalifJim · Answer

Anonymoushow can I transform the sentences into negative without changing of meaning

All of them can be transformed that way by using a procedure I was once taught in a logic class. Except for logic classes, there is absolutely no reason to do this, however.

Preface the negation of the statement with the words "It is not the case that", thus:

It is not the case that the earth is not round.

It is not the case that the sun does not rise in the east.

It is not the case that Mother does not read the Quran daily.

You can substitute "true" for "the case". You can substitute "false" for "not the case".

This works with any sentence. Have fun with it!

CJ

Anonymous · Answer

i wiil give up teaching (make negative)

Clive · Answer

Hi,

You try first, please. Use the word 'not'.

You also need a capital letter and a period.

Clive

Anonymous · Answer

the earth is not but round.
the earth cannot but be round
the earth is nothing but round
the sun does not but rise in the east.
the sun cannot but rises in the east
mother does not but read Quran daily
there is no day mother doesn't read Quran

Anonymous · Answer

It is nothing but the earth which is round
It is nothing but the sun which rises in the east
None but Mother reads Quran daily.

BarbaraPA · Answer

The first two are not very natural and factually false. The third says that Mother is the only person in the world who read the Quran daily. Those are not the same meanings.

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