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Anonymous

12:22 AM

What is the difference between "are you...?" versus "are you not...?"

Are you a student?

Are you not a student?

Aren't you a student?

Are not you a student?

KitFox

@badass Don't abuse the bot. She bites when she gets angry.

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Q: "Does he go bowling?" or "Doesn't he go bowling?"

Let's say we know a boy called Jonny and he goes bowling twice a week. My daughter has asked me which of the following questions are correct. Does Jonny go bowling? Doesn't Jonny go bowling? We are wondering, why is it that the answer to both questions is "yes", although the secon...

Is a good start.

I'm pretty sure we have one specifically for to be as well.

Oh, here we go:

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Q: Negative questions vs positive questions

I'd like to know if negative questions are used very often in English. For example, in Spanish, negative questions are used very often just to offer something, to ask about something you're not sure, to ask telling off somebody, etc. For example: Don't you want something to drink? (offer) ...

questions negation

Gigili

4:00 AM

Hi @corn

Does the following paragraph read well?

> My first name is “Hassan” and until youth, my last name was “Fereydun” as was my father’s. “Fereydun” is an old Persian name which has been mentioned in Shahnameh as well, though I don’t know why it had been chosen as the last name of my ancestor. Our grandfather, late Shekh Zeynol Abedin, was a learned, religious and articulate clergyman who owned a Maktab and passed away when my father was a little child, hence I never saw him and all I know about him is what I have heard from my father and grandmother.

> My first name is “Hassan” and until youth, my last name was “Fereydun” as was my father’s. “Fereydun” is an old Persian name which has been mentioned in Shahnameh as well, though I don’t know why it had been chosen as the last name of my ancestor.

> Our grandfather, late Shekh Zeynol Abedin, was a learned, religious and articulate clergyman who owned a Maktab and passed away when my father was a little child, hence I never saw him and all I know about him is what I have heard from my father and grandmother. My father lost his father during his childhood, and became a paternal orphan since youth, so along with my late uncle they both grew up orphans. Their mother, though, adopted them.

> My grandmother, my paternal ancestor, was a wise woman known as “Molla Loghman”. Although Loghman is usually a masculine name, I don’t know why her name was Loghman. She had a Maktab where girls and women attended and practiced reciting Quran and learning Sharia.

> My grandmother lived in our house with my family. In the mornings, especially during fall when the sunshine was caressing and soft, she furnished a carpet in the yard and spent her time by reciting Quran and Mafatih, whispering her prayers until noon. She adored me so much, because I was the very first grandchildren living with her. She taught me religious and Islamic matters and the method of offering ritual prayers.

> My father also had a very essential role in teaching me Islamic Sharia, and at preliminary ages -at the age of five or six- he usually took me to the mosque for the Dhohr, Asr, Maghrib and Isha prayers.

piliooz read the above text if you have time @Mitch

not the room you are looking for?

!!hi

KitSox

4:17 AM

@Gigili Hi.

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