Using yes-no questions makes it too easy for your prospect to say, “no.” We’ve all been told, trained or read at some point in our work lives that asking yes-no questions is not a good idea.

Embedded wh-questions also differ from direct wh-questions in word order. Although an embedded question begins with a wh-word or phrase, there is no helping verb between the wh-word or phrase and the ...

Yes/No Questions. Certain English questions alter the basic SVO word order pattern or introduce new elements into the sentence structure. In a YES-NO question, a "helping verb" such as be, have, will, ...

Find today’s readings here. “Let your ‘Yes’ mean ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No’ mean ‘No.’ Anything more is from the Evil One.” I sometimes find yes-or-no questions brusque, perturbing ...

These are questions businesses often ask of their customers–whether over email, online, or face-to-face. And they all have one thing in common: They’re all yes/no questions that elicit some ...

Every yes/no question in the survey had also been asked on a similar survey the year before. We compared the distribution of responses on each of the questions affected (looking only at those who ...

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey took to his own platform on Thursday to poke fun at the “yes or no” questions he was asked at a congressional hearing.

The leaders of Harvard, M.I.T. and Penn appeared to evade questions about whether students should be disciplined if they call for the genocide of Jews. transcript Representative Elise Stefanik ...

In 1996, the mathematical logician George Boolos (above) published a paper describing “the hardest logic puzzle ever” which he attributed to the logician Raymond Smullyan. The puzzle has ...

A NO VOTE would make no change in the law governing tip pooling or the minimum wage for tipped workers. For an in-depth look at all 5 Ballot Questions, visit the link here . Download the FREE ...