The purpose of this study is to observe students' use of verb to be in speaking in an EFL context. To this end, 43 students' speaking exams in 2014-2015, and 2015-2016 academic year has been transcribed and the students' use of verb 'to be' has been analyzed. The data has been gathered from three different exams to understand the process entirely. The findings of the study will be presented under the subtopics which will include omission, subject-verb agreement, verb tenses and false concepts hypothesis of verb 'to be'. In this context, it has been planned to find out in which level and how the correct use of verb 'to be' occurs and to determine the common errors of verb 'to be' in each level. Results will be presented in a manner that will show the trend students following using verb to be over the time.

NEGATION IS SOMETHING THAT WE DO. It is typically a judgment that we make, a judgment that something is not the case, and it usually--albeit by no means exclusively--takes the form of a statement. We make negative existential judgments ("There is no longer a Cold War," "Inflation doesn't exist in this economy") and negative predicate judgments ("Two is not greater than three," "The suspect's not ready to talk"). (1) Negations such as these are commonplace, in our lives and in our grammar, and they may well be a distinctive feature of human communication. Almost two decades ago Jon Barwise made the observation: "All human languages contain one or more mechanisms of a negative character; no animal communication does." (2) Even if this last observation overreaches, there can be no doubt about the foundational role that negation traditionally plays in thinking and knowing. Consider how Wittgenstein, with the Sheffer stroke, intro...