Yes-No Question
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A Yes-No Question is a closed-ended question with answer set with two possible answers.
- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Linguistics, Yes and No, Exclusive Disjunction, wh-Question, Five Ws.
References
2014
- (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes–no_question Retrieved:2014-7-11.
- In linguistics, a yes–no question, formally known as a polar question, is a question whose expected answer is either "yes" or "no". Formally, they present an exclusive disjunction, a pair of alternatives of which only one is acceptable. In English, such questions can be formed in both positive and negative forms (e.g. "Will you be here tomorrow?" and "Won't you be here tomorrow?").
Yes–no questions are in contrast with non-polar wh-questions, with the five Ws, which do not necessarily present a range of alternative answers, or necessarily restrict that range to two alternatives. (Questions beginning with "which", for example, often presuppose a set of several alternatives, from which one is to be drawn.)
- In linguistics, a yes–no question, formally known as a polar question, is a question whose expected answer is either "yes" or "no". Formally, they present an exclusive disjunction, a pair of alternatives of which only one is acceptable. In English, such questions can be formed in both positive and negative forms (e.g. "Will you be here tomorrow?" and "Won't you be here tomorrow?").