Syntax
U engleskom jeziku imamo dvije vrste pitanja: Wh- Questions i Yes/No Questions (vidi Yes/No Questions).
Yes/No questions još nazivamo i Closed Questions ili Polar Questions jer odgovori na njih mogu biti samo Yes ili No. Odgovori na zatvorena pitanja zovu se Short Answers.
EXTRA:Yes/No Questions = Da/ne pitanja.
Yes/No Questions imaju ovu strukturu:
Auxiliary/modal verb + subject + noun/verb + question mark (?).
| PITANJE | KRATAK ODGOVOR |
| Do you…? | Yes, I do./ Yes, we do.
No, I don’t./ No we don’t. |
| Does he…? | Yes, he does.
No, he doesn’t |
| Can we…? | Yes, we can.
No, we can’t. |
| Have you got…? | Yes, I have./ Yes, we have.
No, I haven’t./ No, we haven’t. |
| Has he got…? | Yes, he has.
No, he hasn’t. |
| Would you like…? | Yes, I would./ Yes, we would.
No, I wouldn’t./ No, we wouldn’t. |
| Were you…? | Yes, I was./Yes, we were.
No, I wasn’t./ No, we weren’t. |
| Was it…? | Yes, it was.
No, it wasn’t. |
| Did they…? | Yes, they did.
No, they didn’t. |
Kratki odgovor izgleda ovako:
Yes/No + subject + auxiliary/modal verb (isto kao glagol u pitanju).
- Do you like postcards? - Yes, I do. (NOT:
Yes, I like.) - Did she go by car? - No, she didn’t.
- Were you at the bus station yesterday? - Yes, we were.
Da bi stvorili Closed Question jedini dozvoljeni glagoli su pomoćni (be, have, do, etc.) ili modalni (can, could, would, etc).
Obično ponavljamo pomoćni ili modalni glaagol u Short Answers. Nije potrebno ponovno ponavljati glagol.
Nazivamo ih Yes/No Questions, Closed Questions ili Polar Questions budući da odgovori mogu biti samo Yes ili No. Odgovore na ta pitanja nazivamo Short Answers.
- Stuktura Da/ne pitanja je:
Auxiliary/modal verb + subject + noun/verb + question mark (?);
The structure of a Yes/No question is:
- Kratki odgovori izgledaju ovako:
Yes/No + subject + auxiliary/modal verb (the same as the verb of the question).
Npr.:
— “Do you like cats? -Yes, I do.” = Budući da je pitanje postavljeno glagolom to do (Do you like cats?), kratki odgovor će sadržavati isti glagol (Yes, I do.).
NOTE: Možemo koristiti samo pomoćni glagol (have / be…) ili modalni glagol (can / could / would...) kako bi stvorili Da/ Ne pitanja.
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