QUIZ
WILL YOU SAIL OR STUMBLE ON THESE GRAMMAR QUESTIONS?
Smoothly step over to these common grammar mistakes that trip many people up. Good luck!
Question 1 of 7
Fill in the blank: I can’t figure out _____ gave me this gift.
Origin of yes
before 900; Middle English yes, yis, Old English gēse (adv. and noun), probably equivalent to gēa yea + sī be it (present subjunctive singular of bēon to be)
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How to use yes in a sentence
Thenceforward his Imperial Highness used to send Zeitz to me whenever he had any yeses or noes.
Memoirs of the Empress Catherine II.|Catherine II, Empress of RussiaAh, how many yeses she had for him that night, and yes is a sweet word.
A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties|Charles MajorThese yeses were accompanied by the emphatic tapping on the paper.
The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies|Grace Brooks Hill
British Dictionary definitions for yes
yes
/ (jɛs) /
sentence substitute
used to express acknowledgment, affirmation, consent, agreement, or approval or to answer when one is addressed
used, often with interrogative intonation, to signal someone to speak or keep speaking, enter a room, or do something
noun
an answer or vote of yes
(often plural) a person who votes in the affirmative
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Word Origin for yes
Old English gēse, from iā sīe may it be; see yea
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