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Yes / No questions. January 25, 2014 -. Yes / No questions are those questions that expect ‘yes’ or ‘no’ as answer. These questions do not take the question words when, what, where etc. Yes / No questions are used to check information or ask for confirmation. ‘Are you coming with us?’ ‘Yes.’.
Yes/no questions expect yes or no as the answer. We use if or whether to report yes/no questions. Direct: ‘Will you do this?’ Indirect: She asked me if I would do that. Direct: ‘Are you going to the market?’ Indirect: She asked me if I was going to the market. Direct: Will you help me? Indirect: She asked me whether I would help her.
When we report a Yes/No question, we use whether or if. Direct: Suma said to me, ‘Are you interested in this offer?’. Indirect: Suma asked me if I was interested in that offer. Direct: The teacher said to me, ‘Do you know the answer?’. Indirect: The teacher asked me if / whether I knew the answer. Direct: Martha said to Susie, ‘Will ...
For #2, often a person will respond to a question by sorta echoing part of the question back; so if the questioner began the question with "Are there", the responder might begin the response with " (Yes/no) there are"; and the same with "There is"--but it's up to the responder. – F.E. Apr 6, 2014 at 19:34. Add a comment.
Improve this answer. answered Oct 16, 2015 at 23:21. John Lawler. 109k 11 183 480. 1. Of course, "You have lived in New York" or "You lived on 37th Street" is sufficient to be a yes/no question if a rising tone is heard at the end. – Hot Licks. Oct 17, 2015 at 1:16.
You're talking about Negative Questions, Sb Sangpi. The rule here is: there is no special rule in answering Negative Questions. How you answer Negative Questions is exactly how you answer positive ones. So, Do you have a class? = YES, I do. Or, NO, I don't. Don't you have a class? = YES, I do. Or, NO, I don't.
Technically, "yes" is the correct answer, but it is definitely confusing because it is a positive answer to a negative. I would suggest "That's right, I didn't" and "That's right, I don't" as the most clear correct answers. -1 "That's right, I didn't" and "That's right, I don't" are not the options in the Q. Rephrasing can circumvent the right ...
There is then an assertion "You don't have time." to which you correctly reply "No, I can make it on time." "No" negates the assertion. If you choose to answer the first question by saying Yes, you make it difficult to deny the assertion by saying No. You have to say something like "Yes, but I can make it on time".
The cat smiled and said, "Yes." "No," I replied, "he is unavailable." I hoped the answer would be yes, she could go. In so many words, I had to tell him no. In the last two examples, the words "yes" and "no" summarize the nature of the response, but do not necessarily reflect any spoken words.
No, you are mistaken. According to ODO (yes, no), they are being used as exclamations which are presumably the same as interjections. Webster (yes, no) and Macmillan (yes, no), on the other hand, reckon that they are adverbs. Wiktionary (yes, no) chucks another spanner by stating that yes is being used as an adverb while no is being used as an ...