Formation of the Affirmative Yes to Yes-No Questio...

Formation of the Affirmative Yes to Yes-No Questions

The answer to a Yes-No question is expected to be either yes or no.There is no need to elaborate on the formation of both full affirmative and negative answers as the word orders we have discussed so far have already covered that situation.“Yes”is the affirmative to a Yes-No question.We feel a paramount need to explain to our students how to express the affirmative“Yes”in Chinese.There are no fixed corresponding words in Chinese to express the concept，but this does not warrant exhaustive elaboration either.As a matter of fact，the solution is very simple:just repeat the verb in the question.For a question such as“Nǐhǎo ma?”，the affirmative Yes is“Hǎo.”.