Questions About the Modal Particle 吗

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Without a specific context，this type of question is used to elicit a yes-or-no answer.
See 28.2 for more information.
张：你是老师吗？
zhānɡ 　nǐ shì lǎoshī ma
王：我不是老师，是学生。
wánɡ 　wǒ búshì lǎoshī 　shì xuéshenɡ.
Zhang: Are you a teacher?
Wang: I am not a teacher; I am a student.
老师.•你们有问题吗？
lǎoshī Nǐmen yǒu wèntí ma
丁：我有。
dīnɡ 　wǒ yǒu.
李：我没有。
lǐ 　wǒ méiyǒu.
Teacher: Do you (plural) have questions?
Ding: I do.
Li: I don，七
(a) Positive questions
Frequently 吗 is used (instead of an affirmative-negative question See 2.5 for affirmative- negative questions) when the person asking the question expects the answer to be cyesy
(Situation: Seeing a friend getting out of a new car,you ask him if he has just bought a new car.)
你买新车了吗？（An affirmative-negative question (你买新车了没有？）would not be proper in this context since there is a strong indication that he did.)
N nǐ mǎi xīn chē le ma?
Did you buy a new car? (You bought a new car?)

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