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Negative intersection of symplectic submanifolds

For a symplectic 4-manifold, it is possible for two symplectic submanifolds to intersect negatively? Actually it is an exercise in the 4-manifold book by Gompf and Stipsicz to find symplectic planes in $\mathbb{R}^4$ with negative intersection. Now I want to know the closed case. Does this happen also for closed symplectic manifolds?

edited question: Let $(M, \omega)$ be a closed symplectic manifold. If $A$ and $B$ are different homology classes represented by symplectic submanifolds of complementary dimension, do they always intersect non-negatively?

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