Annie Sinigur
is this correct in English? Как задать отрицательный вопрос на английском и как ответить правильно? How to set a negative question in English correctly and how to answer correctly? Didn't you check? (ты не проверял? ) Don't you check? (ты проверяешь?) Will not you check? (ты не будешь проверять?) Thanks!
30 apr 2015 10:47
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Didn't you check? This is fine, and the answers are 'Yes, I did' or 'No, I didn't.' Don't you check? This is also fine, and the answers are 'Yes, I do' or 'No, I don't.' Will not you check? This construction is grammatically correct, but very rarely used nowadays in standard English. It could be used in some circumstances, particularly to add emphasis if the speaker is angry or frustrated. Otherwise, it sounds archaic, or else regional/dialectal. In most cases, we would say: Won't you check? and the responses are 'Yes, I will' or 'No, I won't'.
30 aprile 2015
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First two are correct. Third one should be won't you check? Will and not together = won't. However the sentence itself seems like a rhetorical question. Hope that helps
30 aprile 2015
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