Sentence examples for negative construction from inspiring English sources

Hemp-lime concrete is a sustainable and carbon negative construction material.

"Any more than" after a negative construction makes what follows negative, as well — "I can't do it any more than you can" means that neither of us can do it.

Identification with a negative construction of these particular ways of premenstrual coping could thus result in increased feelings of not being able to deal with PMS.

Defeat of expectations: negative assertion, as in "contrary to what you'd expect…." Although usually signaled by a negative construction, a defeat of expectations could also be indicated by the adversative connective, but, for example, "He wanted to climb the tree, but he got stuck".

T Jefferson Kline's translation – unwilling to take issue with Merle's fondness in this context for fussy negative constructions and parentheses – appears at its clunkiest here.

In this paper I will present the results from an experimental study designed to assess a group of SLI children's ability to judge the grammaticality of a range of negative constructions.

The nuanced empirical NC landscape that our experimental work reveals serves to stress the importance of taking DN readings into consideration for a better understanding of the nature of negative constructions in Catalan and cross-linguistically.

And it should not mess with negative constructions at all.

On the contrary, we avoided elements that could be ambiguous, negative constructions, questions that ask two questions in one, as well as metaphors.

Suppose we represent the temporal duration of a person A by the following line (assuming that he lived between 1650 and 1750): Later Naiyāyikas apparently disputed this natural identity (which corresponds to the Law of Double Negation in classical logic), on the ground that double negative constructions contain the concept of negation, and hence are logically more complex.

Nouns and Pronouns No plural marker for certain count nouns, e.g. 10 month ago First person singular: us rather than me Second person plural: youse rather than you Reflexive pronouns: mysell, yoursell, hissell, etc. rather than myself, yourself, himself, etc. Negative Constructions divn't rather than don't I've not, you'll not, etc. rather than I haven't, you won't, etc.