State the negation of the following statement:
It is not raining. please help explain
It is raining.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/negation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negation
To state the negation of a statement, we need to express its opposite or negate its meaning in some way. In this case, the given statement is "It is not raining."
To express the negation, we first consider the opposite of the verb "raining," which is "not raining." However, to further negate this statement, we need to include the word "not" in front of the entire statement.
Therefore, the negation of "It is not raining" would be "It is raining."