Exercise: Responding to negative questions
Agree or disagree as indicated to the statements suggested by these negative questions. [Y] indicates the questioner's facts are correct; [N] means they are wrong.
Example: Hasn't Leningrad been renamed St Petersburg? [Y] Answer: Yes, it has. Erample: Isn't Mont Blanc the highest mountain in the world? [N] Answer: No, it isn't. [Mt Everest is.]
I Weren't Hillary and Tensing the first people to reach the summit? [Y]