yes-no question
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- noun
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pregunta de sí o no
- To simplify the survey, we included a yes-no question at the beginning.
Examples
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There are also two yes-no questions and two open-ended questions for site-specific comments.
Academic text (2004) -
There were yes-no questions and questions that asked students to check all responses that apply from a series of possible responses.
Academic text (2007) -
Performance of behaviors was recorded using yes-no questions.
Academic text (2001) -
The best that we can do is extract 'one bit' of information that is the answer to a single yes-no question.
Blog text (1) -
Tukey tests were administered to the data for the statements with multiple responses, and chi-square tests were administered to the results of yes-no questions.
Academic text (1996) -
Again, yes—no question.
Blog text (30) -
The instrument consists of 21 yes-no questions (characteristics), 4 demographic questions to identify the UPCs, and a free text area for respondents to describe projects completed, for a total of 26 items on the survey. METHOD
Academic text (2011) -
Our expectations that higher skilled readers would show more pitch movement across sentences, with greater magnitude pitch drop at the end of declarative sentences and greater magnitude pitch rise at the end of yes-no questions, were not met.
Academic text (2013) -
The teacher asked a yes-no question to check if everyone understood the topic.
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Answering a yes-no question requires only a simple affirmation or negation.
Antonyms
How Leading
- Jargon
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Surface Forms
Morphology
yes-no + question
The meaning 'a question answerable with yes or no' is directly and transparently built from the constituents 'yes' + 'no' + 'question' — the compound labels exactly the function. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows straightforward English compounding/hyphenation, so a B1 learner who knows the parts will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Yes-no question comes from the simple idea of a question that needs only the answers yes or no. So, a question like 'Are you ready?' is a yes-no question because you can only answer yes or no.