FREN 3051 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Brown Hair, Preposition And Postposition, Interrogative Word
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Yes or no questions can be posed in one of four ways: Simply raise your voice at the end of the sentence and you have the most colloquial way of asking this type of question. This is called intonation: tu viens? (are you coming?) This is the common conversational way to ask a question: Use the tag n"est ce pas (isn"t that so? right?) at the end of the sentence: tu viens, n"est ce pas? (you"re coming, right?) Use est ce que (which has no literal translation) at the beginning of the thought: est ce que tu viens? (are you coming?, viens tu? (are you coming?) Change the word order of the subject pronoun and the conjugated verb and join them with a hyphen. Inversion is generally used more formally, in writing rather than in conversation: Inversion is the most complicated way to ask a question.
