Negative Questions

Negative question are question used in the negative form.

Negative questions are used to:

• confirm information

• express an opinion

• make an offer or a request

• ask about what did not happen or was not the case.

Negative questions use similar forms to regular affirmative questions. The difference is the addition of the function word not after the verb to be or the auxiliary verb used.

The contraction form of not — n’t — is generally used when asking negative questions.

Confirming information
 

Expressing an opinion

Making an offer or a request

Asking about what did not happen or was not the case