Negative Adjectives & Negative Pronouns “Aucun, Aucune” can be negative adjectives (they are then followed by a noun) or negative pronouns (they then replace the noun). They will agree in number and gender with the noun they modify/ replace. 1. Je n’ai aucune amie = I have no (...
Evaluating false negatives requires starting with negative decisions, pairs of references that were not brought together by the ER process. In general this involves a much larger set. In particular,Figure 1.5is not drawn to scale because for most applications the set (SxS)-M tends to be much ...
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Even more generally, we can treat a negative number like a word preceded by “not” in English. For which I gave you the “antiparticle” metaphor from physics. Just like “not” inverts adjectives into their opposites, so does the “minus” sign for numbers — it makes a positive numbe...