25/01/2022 13:48 Bas Vrangn yroseeTr yes/no questions: est-ce que, n'est-ce pas 2. questions with intonation 2. questions using 'est-ce que... 3. questions using 'nest-ce nas 2 ‘questions with intonation In: yes/no questions: est-ce que, nest-ce pas close window: 5] page: int2 One of the easiest ways to ask a question that may be answered by yes/no is to raise the pitch of your voice at the lend of a statement. In a declarative statement, the pitch normally falls. Listen to the following dialogue and pay close attention to the intonation. 4) Tex: Trey, tu aimes la philosophie? Trey: Non, Je n'aime pas Ie philosophie, Tex: Tu connais Sartre? Trey: lon, Qui est-ce? Tex; Gloups! Crest auteur du chet dloeuvre existentialiste, La Nausée, ‘questions using 'est-ce que..." Another way to ask a yes/no question is to place vowel ‘Tex: Trey, do you like philesophy? ‘Trey: No, I do not lke philosophy. ‘Tex: Do you know Sartre? ‘Trey: No, Who is that? ‘Tex: Gulp! He's the author of the existentialist masterpiece, Nausea. ce que before a statement. Note that que becomes qu' before a Ae Tex, Est-ce ave TY AImes LES FILMS? i) Trey: Et toi, Tex, estee que tu aimes les films? Tex: Bien sr, adore les films. Trey: Est-ce que tu connais Yoda? Tex: Non. Qui est-ce? Trey: Duh questions using ‘nest-ce pas 7 Trey: And you, Tex, do you like films? ‘Tex: Of course, I adore films. ‘Trey: Do you know Yoda? ‘Tex: No. Who is that? Trey: Dub .. Nest-ce pas? is added to the end of a yes/no question when the speaker expects an affirmative response. Trey: Tu connais ‘La guerre des étoiles," nest-ce pas? Yoda, cest le petit sage. Listen to the end of the dialogue: tps wots. ute ‘Trey: You know 'Star Wars,’ don't you? Yoda is the little wise man. 49