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  • yes yes yes I know it's important to say yes to accept offers and to agree with

  • people but we don't have to use the word yes because there are so many other

  • options hello everyone my name is Anna and if you're here to learn English and

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  • right let's learn some English so there are many ways to say yes and some of the

  • informal versions that you'll hear are yeah and yeah and uh-huh like I said

  • these are informal Anna do you like watching films yeah Anna did you eat

  • breakfast this morning yep I really think mom and dad will

  • enjoy watching Game of Thrones what do you think uh-huh so how do we respond to

  • a request for example may I take this seat well if the request starts with may

  • I or can I then you could reply with you

  • may or you can so if you say to me Anna may I take this seat I could say you may

  • or if you say Anna can I borrow your pen I might say you can other common ways of

  • responding are of course sure no problem

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  • So after this lesson why not check it out. So how could we respond to an

  • inquiry using will for example will you be joining us for dinner or will your

  • dad accept my request well you can respond with the following absolutely

  • certainly or sure this can be expanded to I sure will depending on the question

  • of course will you be joining me for dinner I sure will

  • will your Father accept my request he sure will when accepting an offer like

  • would you like a coffee or do you want to come to the cinema then you could

  • simply say definitely or that would be wonderful

  • of course you can change this word to fantastic great good you could say I'd

  • love to or I love that or I'd love one depending on the question of course so

  • if you say would you like a coffee I'd say I'd love one

  • or would you like to join me at the cinema I love to join you at the cinema

  • or if you say would you like me to help you I could say I'd love that you could

  • simply say all right notice that I'm giving a little nod and

  • smiling at the same time all right that would be lovely thank you or you could

  • say okie dokie okie dokie is another slightly informal way of accepting an

  • offer okie dokie let's do that when you are in agreement with a statement like

  • the view is beautiful isn't it now you might simply say agreed totally

  • I'm with you sure is of course sure is will change depending on the statement

  • so if I'm talking about a person she is fantastic isn't she she sure is

  • it was wonderful wasn't it it sure was they were delicious weren't they sure

  • were so there you go a handful of common ways to say yes to show you're in

  • agreement and to give confirmation if you know any other ways of saying yes

  • which I haven't covered then please do put it in the comment section below

  • along with an example question and response if you found this video helpful

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yes yes yes I know it's important to say yes to accept offers and to agree with

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