Let us imagine a short narrative:

A close friend and I met at our favorite café last week. We didn’t have our usual orders. Instead, we tried everything new on the menu. Later on, we realized we shouldn’t have taken the unknown road . . .

My friend  was wearing a beautiful dress. It wasn’t purple – the color in which I have seen her most of the time. I assumed she wanted to try something different. Just like her choice of her travel destination this year. In utter excitement, she told me what she planned to do once in Europe: “I am not flying to Italy. That isn’t the way I want to experience my stops.
[. . .]”

Now, imagine the following negative sentences under a positive light – by rewriting them without a negation:

We didn’t have our usual orders.
[. . .] we shouldn’t have taken the wild road.
It wasn’t purple.
I am not flying to Italy.
That isn’t the way I want to experience my stops.

Enjoy the practice!

 

Published by NhülyaYILMAZ

I am simply hülya. Life has given me several of the utmost valuable gifts: A daughter, a grandson and a granddaughter. Friends who are ready and willing to come to my rescue regardless of the level of despair I am in are also in plentitude. They are my cankardeşlerim, what we may call "soul sisters" in English. As for the post-birth acquisitions of some importance to some (or many) people, I fulfill professional functions as a Penn State Liberal Arts faculty; an incorrigible lifelong educator with endless enthusiasm to teach and learn; the Director of Inner Child Editing Services; a writer - poetry equals my life, after my child and grandchildren, of course. I am also a literary translator. When it comes to my worldview, I am a dedicated and devoted humanist.

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