This document discusses how to transform affirmative-negative sentences while maintaining the original meaning. It provides examples of changing affirmative sentences to negative sentences and vice versa. It also discusses the proper use of words like "only", "if", "unless", and phrases like "as soon as" when transforming between affirmative and negative sentences. The key points are to not change the meaning when transforming sentences, use "none but" for humans and "nothing but" for objects, and to follow specific structures like "no sooner...than" while maintaining the same tense as the original sentence.

1. Affirmative-Negative sentences

2. Assertive
sentence
Negative
Sentence
Affirmative sentence
A sentence without negation A sentence with negation

3. Meaning must not be changed while transforming the sentences.
Example: I am intelligent.( Turn it in negative)
Ans: I am not dull.

4. 1. Snehal was the eyewitness of the murder.
Snehal was the eyewitness of the
murder.
.
The eyewitness should speak nothing but
truth.
There was eyewitness of the murder
Snehal.
For a human being – none but
For any idea or an inanimate object – nothing but
Use of only

5. =
Affirmative
word
People love Angel.
People do not love
devil .
Negation

6. Use of ‘If’
Indication of selectio between
options
Unless you go fast , you will miss the show
If you don’t go fast you will miss the
show.

7. unless = if +
negation
Unless and negation can’t
come in the same clause.
Unless you don’t go fast………

8. Use of As soon
as
 Showing the
simultaneous action
As soon as the tiger saw Mogali , it attcked
No sooner did the tiger see Mogali it
attcked.
No sooner did the tiger saw Mogali it attcked

9. No sooner + verb +Subject+other words+
than+
remaining action
As soon as you go home, change the position of
your bed.
No sooner do you go home than change the
position of your bed.
There is a present tense in the question, so ‘do’ is used in
place of ‘did’.

10. As she was about to go, her servant approached her
No sooner was she about to go than her servant
approached her.
‘Do’ or ‘did’ will come only if the
action verb is there in question.

11. Points to remember for No sooner……..than
Check the tense of the
question
 Check the form of the verb
Spelling -‘ than’ not then