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Does 'Yes' or 'No' at the beginning of a reply coordinate with the verb in the p...

Does 'Yes' or 'No' at the beginning of a reply coordinate with the verb in the principal or in a subordinate clause?

A: It doesn’t look like this photo was taken at night!
B: [Yes/No], the moon was very bright.

Would 'Yes' or 'No" be the idiomatic option here?

Note that I am not talking about the cases where the auxiliary is repeated in the answer, i.e. 'Yes, it was. The moon was very bright.' and 'No, it doesn't. The moon was very bright.'

Does 'Yes' or 'No' at the beginning of a reply coordinate with the verb in the principal or in a subordinate clause in the preceding speaker's sentence?

Now, let's look at other examples.

1

A: She didn't come to teach the lesson when her colleague fell ill after she ate a lot of ice-cream at once.
B: [Yes/No], she had to pick up her mom from the airport.

2

A: She didn't come to teach the lesson when her colleague fell ill after she ate a lot of ice-cream at once.
B: [Yes/No], it was delicious, trust me. I was there too.

3

A: She came to teach the lesson when her colleague couldn't come to work after she ate a lot of ice-cream at once and had a temperature.
B: [Yes/No], she was really ill.

4

A: She came to teach the lesson when her colleague couldn't come to work after she ate a lot of ice-cream at once and had a temperature.
B: [Yes/No], it was delicious, trust me. I was there too.



Top Answer/Comment:

With the verb of the part of the sentence you are addressing, but as you make more complex sentences it gets confusing. It's not clear with which part of the sentence you are agreeing or disagreeing. Your examples with the woman who didn't teach the lesson are already ambiguous (who ate the ice cream?) and in some of the examples the speaker isn't addressing the main verb but only a subordinate part.

"No, she didn't teach the lesson"

"Yes, the ice cream was delicious"

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