Negative questions-grammar music

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Negative questions

• Yes I have a lot to do actually!

Negative questions

Isn't this the dream house you alway wanted?

• This is the dream house I always wanted!

Negative questions

Je vraagt bij een ontkennende vraag vaak om bevestiging.

Bij de werkwoorden to be, have, of hulpwerkwoord zoals can worden vooraan de zin gezet met daarachter not.

• Isn't/aren't/wasn't/weren't
• Haven't/hasn't/hadn't
• Can't/couldn't

... she lovely?... she wonderful?

... you want me?

... I made it obvious?
... I made it clear?

I was thinking to myself. Hey ... this easy?

Oh ..., you stay with me?

... call us Kyle, we'll call you

... it feel like Christmas?

... you tired trying to fill that void?

So if you're going to ask for food, you say?

1. Could you please give me some food?
2. Don't you have any food for me?
3. GIMME FOODIES!!!!!!
4. *You just take the food.*

How do you make a sentence negative?

sentence: Did you go to france?

Negative sentences are said like the subject already knows it, but doubts if its true.

Negative: Didn't you go to france?

make this negative:

Is that your puppy?

1. I don't like your puppy.
2. that's your puppy, isn't it?
3. Isn't that your puppy?
4. The puppy is dead.

Now for real. Make this sentence negative:
Do you know the answer?

1. Yes
2. No
3. Doesn't you knows the answer?
4. Don't you know the answer?

Make this positive:
Can't you write a question on the board?

1. Of course, I would love to.
2. Can you write a question on the board?
3. Can't you write a question on the board?
4. Write a question on the board!

When do you use a negative question?

1: If you want to confirm something

2: To make clear you don't like something

make this negative:
Is this quiz finished yet?

1. Isn't this quiz finished yet?
2. nope
3. yes
4. What quiz? you didn't put it in Som!

Make a negative question of:
I am happy that I told the truth

1. Has I not happy that I told the truth?
2. Aren't you happy that you told the truth?
3. I'm not happy that I told the truth
4. Am I not happy that I told the truth?

Again: make a negative question of:
I am pleased to see you

1. Aren't you pleased to see me?
2. You aren't pleased to see me?
3. I am not pleased to see you?
4. I pleased not to see you?

Make a negative question of:
Aram has got a brother named Tom

1. Aram has not got a brother called Tom?
2. Has Aram a brother named Tom?
3. Tom hasn't got a brother named Aram?
4. Hasn't Aram got a brother named Tom?

Make a negative question of:
They are too young to visit the cinema on their own

1. Aren't they too young to visit the cinema on their own?
2. They aren't too young to visit the cinema on their own?
3. Isn't they too young to visit the cinema on their own?
4. On their own the are too young to visit the cinema?

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