53 Yes/No Questions

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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