Correct negative form of punctual verbs Take the verb . As a punctual verb, it appears as when describing a person who "has sat down and remains sitting." When using the negative, there are two options: and . Given the question, "Is Tom the guy who is seated?" and the response "Tom is not sitting, he's the guy doing jumping jacks", which form of the negative matches the intended meaning? What would the other form mean? This question was prompted by learning that the appropriate negative of is , and none of my learning resources describe anything about forms in the negative.

expresses a feeling of "I'm not going to seat", it talks about the future volition. If you say something like , you mean the person who won't seat there, talking about future.

is the negative form of , which talks about the state, if it's seated or not, or if someone is seating or not. As for your question, you should use and , because you want to talk about the state, not one's willing to do something.

> Is Tom the guy who is seated?

might be translated to:





If you just say:

>

You are coldly saying:


I'm never gonna seat there.
There's no way I'll seat there.