Use of Negation 4
This category refers to questions which have negatives.
THE MAIN NEGATIVE WORDS USED ARE:
no
not
not only
not any
never
barely
hardly
scarcely
Ex. 1. It was __________________ the year 1000 A.D. that Europeans set foot on North America.
(A) never
(B) not until
(C) unless
(D) in that
In this example, the correct answer is B.
Ex. 2. Not president of the United States is so revered as Abraham Lincoln.
In this example, A is incorrect, “Not” should be “No”.
Ex. 3. According to (A)Spanish accounts of (B) the fighting at the Alamo, no all (C) of the Texans were
immediately killed. (D)
In this example, C is incorrect, “no” should be “not”.
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