1) beginning a sentence with a negative word - English Grammar (video teaching)

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1) beginning a sentence with a negative word

IX. Sentence and Clause: Types, Structure, and Common Problems

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A. basic sentence types

B. parts of speech and word order

C. sentence structure and parallelism

D. punctuation and capitalization

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1. declarative: ( general/mixed) affirmative and negative

a. negatives

1) beginning a sentence with a negative word

2) using "not" and other negative words

3) avoiding double negatives

4) negative inversion

2. interrogative (asking questions)

a. introduction (general / mixed)

b. yes/no questions and information (Wh-) questions

1) yes/no questions

2) information (Wh-) questions

a) introduction (general / mixed)

b) questions with who, whom, what, and whose

c) using "what" + a form of "do"

c. tag questions

d. embedded questions

3. exclamatory

4. imperative

Also see V-C-1-c: inversion.

Negative Inversion (with never, seldom, rarely, hardly, barely, scarcely, only, little)

source: Smrt English 2012-11-15
Exercise: http://smrtvideolessons.com/2013/07/2...

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