It is a part of Morphology materials

1. ADE SUDIRMAN, S.Pd., M.Pd
English Education Department
Teacher Training and Education Faculty
Mathla’ul Anwar University

2.  Negation is the presence of a negative
sense in a clause (Trask 1993).
 The sense is a grammatical element
which reverses the truth value of
preposition.
 Spears (1991) describes three types of
negation: negative pronoun, negative
adverb, and negative article.

3. A negative pronoun is an indefinite pronoun
whose antecedent is expressed as negative or
non-existent.

4. Nobody has been here.
I saw none over there last night.
I have nothing in my life.
Neither you nor I can speak French.

5. It is form that makes a clause negative to a
greater or lesser degree.

6.  I hardly ever see you again.
 They never came here for years.
 She rarely comes home this semester.
 We seldom meet each other in this
town.
 I was almost hit by a car last night.

7. (a) Negative affixes, (b) Indeclinable words.

8. Negative Affixes
 He is an
impatient person.
 She dislikes her
new clothes.
 The guy was so
careless
 I have no money
today.
 My father is not a
president.
 They had not
been here since
the war broke.
Indeclinable Words

9.  11. Abbrevations
USA = United States of America;
NY = New York;
UK = United Kingdom
 12. All the words in a greeting and the first word in
the closing of letter.
Dear Sir:
To Whom It May Concern;
Very truly yours.

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