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Negative question; what's the affirmative answer here? [duplicate]
My wife and I communicate in English. She's Japanese, I'm Norwegian and we're both language enthusiasts; this makes for a lot of interesting language discussions.
This is something that surfaced ...
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Is the answer to this question “neither” or “either”?
She doesn't think so or you don't think so?
Is it grammatically correct to respond with
Either.
or
Neither.
to this question?
Or does this depend on the meaning intended to be ...
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Why do positive and negative variants of the same question elicit the same answer? [duplicate]
In common American English usage, these two questions elicit the same response:
Do you have a ticket?
Don't you have a ticket?
These are the usual answers (I was going to say "possible answers" ...
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“Does he go bowling?” or “Doesn't he go bowling?”
Let's say we know a boy called Jonny and he goes bowling twice a week. My daughter has asked me which of the following questions are correct.
Does Jonny go bowling?
Doesn't Jonny go ...
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1answer
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Answering a negatively-expressed question [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to answer a negative question without ambiguity?
2). Didn't we park on the C level?
(A) Yes, I sure thought we did.
(B) No, we'll park on the D level.
(C) ...
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“Why you no…?” or “What that no…?” — are those grammatically correct? [closed]
Why you no come?
Why you no talk English?
Why you no have a girlfriend?
What kind of English are these sentences? Are these types of sentences grammatically correct?
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2answers
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“You have nothing to do” - “Yes I do” / “Yes I don't” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
When a negative question is asked, what is the grammatically correct way to answer?
How to answer a negative question without ambiguity?
If someone says "You have ...
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2answers
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Tag Questions “is he not”
"He is happy, isn't he?"
If you did not use the contraction isn't he, in the question above, would the correct sentence be:
"He is happy, is he not?"
"He is happy, is not he?"
Sentence #1 seems ...
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5answers
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Negative in a question with various negative valence words
so I was walking to a very nice place in Berlin today only to find it empty yet again. I was asking myself why this is... and now I am confused.
Which of the following forms of asking are correct? ...
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Question tags — “did you” vs. “didn't you”
Typically, when we ask for confirmation/denial of a statement, we say something like the following:
We turn left here, don't we?
You have a cat, don't you?
We've met before, haven't we?
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“Why can't I see?” or “Why I can't see?”?
Which of the following is correct?
Why can't I see?
Why I can't see?
I am a bit confused, since both have inversion, negation and a "why" in the beginning.
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Negative questions vs positive questions
I'd like to know if negative questions are used very often in English. For example, in Spanish, negative questions are used very often just to offer something, to ask about something you're not sure, ...
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Is this correct grammar — “which feature in C/C++ don't you like?”
The question in question is this:
Which feature in C/C++ don't you like?
Just wanted to know if that is proper way of asking. Not sure if "don't you like" is the right way there.
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How to answer a negative question without ambiguity?
I faced a problem to answer a negative question, for example When someone ask you:
Don't you have any money?
It's a yes/no question but how should one answer the question without ambiguity?
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How to ask a question to confirm a negative situation?
For example, I want to make sure that Tom was not in Professor X's class. However, I can't ask:
Wasn't Tom in Professor X's class last semester?
Because that means I think Tom WAS in Professor ...
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When a negative question is asked, what is the grammatically correct way to answer? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to answer a negative question without ambiguity?
Response to “Would you not do it?”
When a negative question is asked, what is the grammatically correct way to ...
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Response to “Would you not do it?”
If posed with the subject question, given that I will not do the action in question, then what is the correct answer
No, I will not do it.
or
Yes, I will not do it.
#1 sounds better to ...
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About question tags
He did nothing*.
Which is the correct question tag for the sentence above?
didn't he?
did he?
What is the effect of using nothing for negation?
