{"id":97,"date":"2009-05-18T10:33:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T14:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=94"},"modified":"2009-05-18T10:33:28","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T14:33:28","slug":"french-grammar-answering-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/french-grammar-answering-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"French Grammar &#8211; Answering Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions in French can be expressed in the negative form, which brings up a few issues when answering correctly. \u00a0If you want to confirm the negative in the question, then you answer with &#8216;<em>Non<\/em>&#8216;, but if you want to respond affirmatively to the question, then you answer with &#8216;<em><strong>Si<\/strong><\/em>&#8216;. \u00a0Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<p><em>Il n&#8217;y a pas de centres commerciaux en France ?<\/em> \u00a0(There aren&#8217;t any shopping centers in France?)<br \/>\n<strong><em>Si<\/em><\/strong><em>, il y a des centres commerciaux en France.<\/em>\u00a0 (Yes, there are shopping centers in France.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Tu n&#8217;es pas des Etats-Unis\u00a0? <\/em>\u00a0(You aren&#8217;t from the United States\u00a0?)<br \/>\n<em>Mais <strong>si<\/strong>, je suis des Etats-Unis.<\/em> (Why yes, I am from the United States.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Vous ne voulez pas venir jouer au basket avec moi ?<\/em> (You don&#8217;t want to come play basketball with me?)<br \/>\n<em>Ben <strong>si<\/strong>, nous en voulons. <\/em>\u00a0(Uh, yes, we do.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions in French can be expressed in the negative form, which brings up a few issues when answering correctly. \u00a0If you want to confirm the negative in the question, then you answer with &#8216;Non&#8216;, but if you want to respond affirmatively to the question, then you answer with &#8216;Si&#8216;. \u00a0Here are some examples: Il n&#8217;y&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/french-grammar-answering-questions\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[284,394],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-grammar","tag-free-french-lessons","tag-french-questions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}