Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

Negative Questions – Preguntas negativas en INGLES

Curso gratuito en línea para aprender inglés GRATIS – Negative Questions / Preguntas en forma negativa – USOS y ESTRUCTURA – LECCION 31 GRAMATICA

Today we are going to talk about questions. When do we use negative questions? How do we form them? What are the differences between normal questions and negative questions. We will discuss all these points.


Hoy repasaremos las preguntas en negative “negative questions” y veremos juntos cuando lo usamos y como es que se forman estas preguntas.

Negative questions

Structure:

To form negative questions we simply add n’t (not) after the auxiliary

Negative Questions 
Aren’t you married?Don’t you know English?PRESENT SIMPLE
Isn’t Juan working?PRESENT CONTINUOUS
Wasn’t Felipe sick?Didn’t Mary study for the test?PAST SIMPLE
Haven’t you sent the emailPRESENT PERFECT
Aren’t you going to the doctor tomorrow?FUTURE

 USE of negative questions

Compare the following questions

-          Are you sick?

This is a normal information question. I want to know if the person is sick in general. 

-          Aren’t you sick?

 In this case you have the idea that the person is sick. For example, let’s suppose that Mario arrived late to work and said he was sick. Later that afternoon you see him drinking a cold beer. You say “Hey Mario, aren’t you sick?”

We use the negative questions:  

  • To show surprise :
    Didn’t you send the email? Why? That was so important.
  • To show doubt; to check information
    -Aren’t you the Carlos? Don’t you teach English on-line? Wow! Nice to meet you.
    - Doesn’t she work for City Bank. I think I know her
  • When you expect the listener to agree
    -Isn’t it a great day. It is so sunny and the sky is blue.
    - Doesn’t this food tase delicious? Yummy Yummy.

 En conclusión vemos que para formas los “negative questions” simplemente añadimos el “not” despues del “auxiliary”. Es es bastante sencillo pero la importancia esta es saber es que situaciones se usan. COmo vimos lo usamos para expresar sorpresa, cuando tenemos una duda y queremos corraborar información y finalmente lo usamos cuando esperamos que la otra persona este de acuerdo  con nosotros. Recuerden de practicar esta forma y de no olvidarse de los usos.

Extra Resources and Exercises:

  • POWERPOINT EXPLANATION: This is a nice presentation by Kristi Reyes about negative questions.

 

Negative Questions (Ejercicio para completar)

http://club.telepolis.com/englishweb/negativeinterrog.html

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11 Responses to “Negative Questions – Preguntas negativas en INGLES”

  1. Rafael says:

    WOOOOOOOOO teacher Carlos,you rock!. When I grow up I want to be just like you. I really admire the work you are doing here. Few people can give as much as you give us. I’m from Mexico and you are such a great teacher.

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  2. Lady Maria says:

    Thanks, for this page, I am in Canada, currently studying English, I am from Colombia, many latin students like to use this page, you are famous here! we are learning a lot.
    Thank you very much, because you are helping many peoples around on the world to build our dreams!

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  3. Edith says:

    The lesson was very short but very important, thank you very much.

    I´m from Mexico city and I´m very happy with you.

    Take care teacher Carlos

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  4. luna says:

    muy buena clase. me gustaria que montara mas clases, Gracias

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  5. Thanks you Teacher Carlos!
    I`m Maria Josefina. I am Chilean. I am a student and an office administrative assistant.
    Sus podcats muy buenos y claros. Tengo muchas ganas de aprender ingles, pero mi tiempo es poco. Hoy solo hablo español y mapuchedugun. Soy de Cholchol (Temuco) al sur de Chile.
    Mis saludos y mis agradecimientos por sus clases.

    Gracias.

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  6. Sandra says:

    Hola, profesor Carlos seguira subiendo más clases? me encantaría seguirlas, me han sido muy útiles

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  7. jhon bon jovi says:

    saludos profesor carlos :D

    sigua asi:P

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  8. Maggie says:

    Hola Carlos, gracias por tus clases,son estupendas.Soy del sur de Argentina y sigo tus clases periodicamente, gracias a ellas continuo con el ingles, estas haciendo una muy buena obra y ademas de ser muy didactico y simple al momento de enseñar. Mis saludos y agradecimento.

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  9. sara says:

    Hola carlos. soy sara de España, estudio ingles en la escuela de idiomas para adultos , mirando en la red encontre esta pagina, y la verdad es que es maravillosa , esplicas muy bien y ademas es de admirar que alguien haga algo asi gratis, gracias desde España.

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  10. Mercedes says:

    Hi!im Mercedes from Argentina . I been in the USA for abouth 8 months as an exchange student. I am getting very close to my return at my country. I have to say that i found this page on a very random way and i also have to say that i love it! Congratulations!!

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  11. Carlos V says:

    Hola, me gustaría saber cómo funciona sin hacer la contracción. Gracias

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