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Ответы да и нет в английском языке

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Ответы да и нет в английском языке

Answer "yes" and "no"

Yes and no are two words for expressing affirmatives and negatives respectively in English (e.g. "Are you hungry?" "Yes, I am.").

ApprovalDisapproval
1 Excellent! Awful
2 Fantastic How very strange!
3 Fine No wonder
4 First – rate! Pity!
5 Good, isn’t it? That’s a pity!
6 Magnificent What a pity!
7 Nice, isn’t it? What a shame!
8 Quite! What nonsense!
9 Right!  
10 Splendid!  
11 That’s a good idea!  
12 That’s right.  
13 Well yes  
14 Wonderful!  
15 Yes, I see  
16 Yes, very likely.  

In agreeing with an unfavourable opinion, you may wish to qualify your agreement with an expression of regret, etc.

expression of regretexpression
1 His speech was boring Yes, I am afraid it was.
2 His speech was boring I have to agree that it was.
3 His speech was boring I must say I found it so.

Notice that you need to be very polite when disagreeing with someone in English – even someone you know quite well.

When you deny or contradict what someone else has stated, the effect is often impolite, unless the denial is qualified in some way.

You can qualify it by an apology or by adjusting to the speaker’s point of view:

English is a difficult language to learn.

- I am afraid I disagree with you: some languages are even more difficult, I think.

Or

- TRUE, but the grammar is quite easy.

Or

-Yes, but it’s not so difficult as Russian.

Or

- Do you think so? Actually, I find it quite easy.

Agreement - Disagreement

AgreementDisagreement
1 By all means By no means
2 How nice of you Far from it!
3 I’d be glad to I think you’re mistaken
4 It / certainly / is. I’d like to say yes, but…
5 Sure I’m afraid I don’t agree.
6 That’s be lovely I’m awfully sorry but you see
7 Why, yes of course Just the other way round
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