Negative Questions in English - Learn How to Ask Negative Questions

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Paper English - English Danny


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negative questions negative questions  okay now some of you are going to say  
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eric what does that mean what is a negative  question what is a negative question um you  
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can say oh don't you have a question like a yes  or no question like um do you like do you like  
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hot spicy food do you like spicy food yes i  do no i don't so what is a negative question  
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a negative question is often used as a contraction  so it's when you use who's where and then it's  
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very common in spoken english especially with  why you can form negative wh questions with  
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isn't aren't wasn't and weren't so we said before  instead of saying is not you can say isn't it's  
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it's a contraction you don't say are not you  can say aren't was not wasn't they were not they  
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weren't now let's quickly look at some of these  negative these negative questions some examples  
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that i can show you so the examples i can show  you negative q examples negative question examples  
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why don't you speak japanese so you can say  um so if you want to ask a negative question  
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why don't you speak japanese why why don't you eat  spicy food so this is you want more information  
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you want the person to explain something for you  so we often use why why haven't you done your  
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homework why hasn't your cousin called me yet  right so these are negative questions that you  
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can ask for more information why won't you come  to my birthday party that won't is a contraction  
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why will you not so it means why will you not  come to my birthday party why won't you come to my  
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party why is she not on time why isn't she on time  is more natural to use why aren't they doing their  
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homework why aren't they doing their homework  who wasn't at the party why weren't they saying  
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what weren't they saying about last night okay so  what is that secret what does it mean you can ask  
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a negative question to do that very important and  it will make you sound more like a native speaker  
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does everybody understand is everybody okay i hope  to be clear and explain things so if you have any  
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questions please put it in the comments below and  i will do my best to explain um so um it's it's  
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a little bit difficult i know but just remember  that you can ask questions you can ask positive  
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normal questions but you can also ask these  negative questions too why haven't you why didn't  
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you why didn't you tell me about the homework  okay so negative questions are also important
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