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  <h3 style="line-height:150%"><a name="好吗" id="好吗">Review of
  interrogatives following <span class="hanzi">好吗</span></a></h3>
  <p><span class="english">The</span> interrogative <span class=
  "english">expression</span> <span class="hanzi">好吗</span>
  <span class="english">hăoma</span> <span class="english">is it
  OK? / how about ? is used in making suggestions.</span>
  <span class="hanzi">好吗</span> <span class="english">hăoma</span>
  <span class="english">is placed at the end of a statement to form
  a question. For instance:</span></p>
  <p><span class="hanzi">我</span> <span class="hanzi">们</span>
  <span class="hanzi">去</span> <span class="hanzi">看</span>
  <span class="hanzi">电</span> <span class="hanzi">影</span>
  <span class="hanzi">好</span> <span class="hanzi">吗？</span></p>
  <p><span class="english">wŏmen qù kàn diànyĭng hăoma</span>
  <span class="english"><a href=
  "Sound/women%20qu%20kan%20dianying%20haoma.wav"><img src=
  "../Misc/BD18249_.WMF" /></a></span></p>
  <p><span class="english">Shall we go and see a film</span>
  <span class="english">? / How about seeing a film?</span></p>
  <p><span class="hanzi">我们去看电影</span> <span class="english">wŏmen
  qù kàn diànyĭng</span> <span class="english">we are going to see
  a film</span> <span class="english">is a statement.</span>
  <span class="english">hăoma</span> <span class="english">is it
  OK? / how about ? is added at end to form a question with the
  force of a suggestion. The use of</span> <span class=
  "english">hăoma</span> <span class="english">is similar to the
  use of the sentence particle</span> <span class=
  "english">ba</span> <span class="english">. However, the sentence
  particle</span> <span class="english">ba</span> <span class=
  "english">has a more assertive tone (equivalent to the first
  person plural imperative ‘let’s’ in English), while</span>
  <span class="english">hăoma</span> <span class="english">leaves
  more of the choice to the listener.</span></p>
  <p><span class="english">If we replace</span> <span class=
  "hanzi">好吗</span> <span class="english">hăoma</span> <span class=
  "english">with the sentence particle</span> <span class=
  "english">ba</span> <span class="english">in the above
  statement</span> <span class="english">,</span> <span class=
  "english">the imperative connotation is stronger.</span></p>
  <p><span class="hanzi">我</span> <span class="hanzi">们</span>
  <span class="hanzi">去</span> <span class="hanzi">看</span>
  <span class="hanzi">电</span> <span class="hanzi">影</span>
  <span class="hanzi">吧。</span></p>
  <p><span class="english">wŏmen qù kàn diànyĭng ba</span>
  <span class="english"><a href=
  "Sound/women%20qu%20kan%20dianying%20ba.wav"><img src=
  "../Misc/BD18249_.WMF" /></a></span></p>
  <p><span class="english">( Come on.) Let’s go and see a
  film.</span></p>
  <p><span class="english">The answers for both types of question
  are either</span> <span class="hanzi">好</span> <span class=
  "english">hăo</span> <span class="english">OK</span> <span class=
  "english">or</span> <span class="english">bù xíng</span>
  <span class="english">no</span> <span class="english">( not
  OK)</span> <span class="english">.</span> <span class=
  "english">The negative answer</span> <span class="english">bu
  xíng</span> <span class="english">no</span> <span class=
  "english">( not OK) is often followed by</span> <span class=
  "english">a reason.</span> <span class="english">For instance, to
  give a negative answer to the above suggestion, we could
  say:</span></p>
  <p><span class="hanzi">不</span> <span class="hanzi">行，我</span>
  <span class="hanzi">跟</span> <span class="hanzi">我</span>
  <span class="hanzi">男</span> <span class="hanzi">朋</span>
  <span class="hanzi">友</span> <span class="hanzi">一起</span>
  <span class="hanzi">去</span> <span class="hanzi">看</span>
  <span class="hanzi">京剧。</span></p>
  <p><span class="english">bù xing, wŏ gēn wŏ nán péngyou yìqĭ qù
  kàn jīngjù</span> <span class="english"><a href=
  "Sound/buxing%20wo%20gen%20wo%20nanpeng%20yiqi.wav"><img src=
  "../Misc/BD18249_.WMF" /></a></span></p>
  <p><span class="english">Sorry, I can’t; my boyfriend and I are
  going to a Peking Opera.</span></p>
  <p><span class="english">NB Apologies such as sorry are not as
  common in Chinese as in English.</span></p>
  <p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700"><a style=
  "text-decoration: none" target="_blank" href=
  "Lessons%2014-16.htm#%E5%A5%BD%E5%90%97">Assignments.</a></span></p>
  <p>Translate the following sentences into Chinese (Review of
  interrogatives following 好吗)</p>
  <p>Shall we have some tea in the café after the class?</p>
  <p>Could I please use your car for a little while?</p>
  <p>Shall we all go (straight) to the cinema from the library?</p>
  <p>Let’s all go there (straight) from my place.</p>
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