{"id":3654,"date":"2022-05-26T01:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T06:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3654"},"modified":"2022-05-01T06:53:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T11:53:02","slug":"yes-no-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2022\/05\/yes-no-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes-No Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The basic yes-no question is quite easy to answer. It is either &#8220;yes&#8221; or &#8220;no.&#8221; Recognizing the question is a bit more difficult, but not impossible.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a type of question for which the answer is either &#8220;yes&#8221; or &#8220;no.&#8221; It is quite easy to answer as there are only two answers with one alternative. Okay, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There seems to be a difficulty here as many question answer-ers don&#8217;t recognize the yes-no question. They want to answer with an explanation containing many words (many &#8220;if,&#8221; &#8220;and,&#8221; and &#8220;but&#8221;).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The yes-now question centers around the English form of the &#8220;to be&#8221; verb. Examples include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Do you have &#8230;<\/li><li>Did you &#8230;<\/li><li>Is this a \u2026<\/li><li>Can you \u2026<\/li><li>Are you &#8230;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once we hear those types of words, we only have to say &#8220;yes&#8221; or &#8220;no.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Often there is another question following the yes-no question. Continue with the discussion, but only after answering the first question first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>For example, &#8220;Did you analyze this?&#8221; <\/li><li>Answer &#8220;yes&#8221; or &#8220;no.&#8221;<\/li><li>If &#8220;yes,&#8221; the next question could be, &#8220;Did you write a report on the analysis?&#8221;<\/li><li>If &#8220;yes,&#8221; the next question could be, &#8220;May I have a copy of the report?&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pretty simple, huh? If a &#8220;no&#8221; answer arises, we may take the conversation in one of many different directions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The answer to, &#8220;Did you analyze this?&#8221; is not &#8220;Well, I could if you want me to.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The answer to, &#8220;Did you write a report on the analysis?&#8221; is not &#8220;Not yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s keep it simple. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A big part of this simplicity is trust. Both persons trust one another to be honest. Both persons trust one another to have good intentions in the questions and answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once again, we encounter the adage that if you don&#8217;t have trust among colleagues, nothing else matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips The basic yes-no question is quite easy to answer. It is either &#8220;yes&#8221; or &#8220;no.&#8221; Recognizing the question is a bit more difficult, but not impossible. There is a type of question for which the answer is either &#8220;yes&#8221; or &#8220;no.&#8221; It is quite easy to answer as there are only two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,32,286,247,231],"tags":[240,154,287,248,232],"class_list":["post-3654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","category-communication","category-conversation","category-questions","category-trust","tag-analysis","tag-communication","tag-conversation","tag-questions","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3655,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions\/3655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}