In everyday conversations, English speakers sometimes use negative questions at the end of sentences, especially when they ...

In this episode we will discover how English users indicate negative meanings. One of the ways we can do that is with the word not. Hello. I’m Margot Politis. Welcome to Study English, IELTS ...

Let me explain this with a sentence, "I am a Japanese." "I" is WATASHI, and "a Japanese" is NIHON-JIN. So, "I'm a Japanese" is WATASHI WA NIHON-JIN DESU. To make a sentence ending with DESU into a ...

A question from Kypros in the UK: Why is it that many English people use a negative construction in the following example when a positive meaning is meant? For instance: Hello. Thank you for writing ...

Previous research has suggested that including negative words in the middle of a sentence can throw off our brains and make it more difficult to understand. A new study reveals that the way negative ...

The facial expression indicating disagreement is universal, researchers say. A furrowed brow, lifted chin and pressed-together lips — a mix of anger, disgust and contempt — are used to show negative ...