any good examples in syllabus helping understand ‘NEGATE' strategy in NA questions?

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• cuervlui000 Alum Member

  March 2 31 karma

  Agree, this would be helpful
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  david.konover Alum Member

  March 2 27 karma

  If negating the answer choice would completely ruin the argument then that is a required assumption of the argument. Hopefully this helps
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  1stWorldProblems Live Member

  March 2 724 karma

  there are flash cards exercises in syllabus that might be helpful
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  JDream2025 Core Member

  March 3 1002 karma

  Negation would be the opposite of what the statement says.

  John says he likes to eat out.
  Negate: John says he does not like to eat out.

  Maria is sick of eating broccoli.
  Maria is not sick of eating broccoli.

  No one likes to fish.
  Some do like to fish.

  All animals are furry.
  Some animals are not furry.

  Some chickens are cute when they talks.
  No chickens are cute when they talk.

  The only tricky thing would be when it’s some, all, most, none, etc, dealing with quantifiers. But other than that, you only negate an answer choice that you think might be the answer. You don’t negate every AC. I know you asked if there were any drills you could do but I just wanted to show you that negation can be a natural thing. I hope this helped!
• jbantony Alum Member

  May 12 36 karma

  A really helpful way I approach the negated method is that the correct answer choice leads me to ask the question "if this negated answer choice is true how can you possibly conclude what the stimulus is claiming.". If you can ask claim this it more often than not is the correct AC. Often times the correct answer choice renders the premises irrelevant and quite literally make the conclusion seem like its not supported at all.