negation - Answering negative questions with "Yeah."

I know I need to answer in the same way regardless of questions are positive or negative in English.

For example, when I didn't go to work yesterday,

Q. Didn't you go to work yesterday? (Did you go to work yesterday?)

A. No I didn't.

I am still taking time when answering negative questions in the real life, because in the language I was using before, it was deferent way. If I say yes to negative questions, it means I agree asker's negative questions. Anyway, I have been adapting to the English way to answer.

But what confuses me is that I meet those kind of native speakers who answer "Yeah." to the negative questions.

For example,

Q. You don't want to go?
A. Yeah. (When he/she doesn't want to go.)

There have been many of native English speaker answering like this. So I am wondering if there is a difference between 'yes' and 'yeah'.

grammar - Does the tense in that clause need to agree with the main clause?

I don't know if the title of this question is accurate or not. My vacabulary of grammar is very limited. May you could understand me by the following example:

1. She told me that the earth is moving around the sun.




2. She told me that the earth was moving around the sun.

Which one is correct? Should the tense in that clause always agree with the tense in main clause?

grammar - Simple past tense vs. perfect past tense

What are the difference between the following sentence?

1. I ate apples.



2. I have eaten apples.

When should we use simple past tense? When should we use perfect past tense?

How should I phrase a question that must be answered with an ordinal number (e.g., the third prime)?

I want to make a question having an answer as follows:

5 is the third prime number.

The bold part is the answer. How to phrase the question?

grammaticality - Is it possible to get real property from the phrase "real and tangible personal property"?

My understanding from the research that I have done on the phrase "real and tangible personal property is has follows:

1. Real and tangible are adjectives




2. and is a conjunction that puts together words, phrases, or clauses that have the same grammatical function




3. personal property is a compound word defined by Websters as a noun meaning personalty




4. that this phrase could be written as "real and tangible personalty" which would have the same meaning. That the only way I could see this written to mean real property is to say: "real property and tangible personal property" If you made real a noun and tangible personal property a noun you still could not come up with "real property" as real could be a Spanish coin.




5. I also do not believe this is legal question, as it is written in the Michigan constitution, which was ratified by the people at large not a group of attorneys.

vocabulary - Difference between "chest" and "trunk"

According to several dictionaries, a "trunk" is a large case or box that can be used when travelling or for storage, whereas a "chest" is used only for storage. Is that the only difference between the concepts of "chest" and "trunk"? Which word is more common? Which one comes to your mind first when you see that kind of large box?

Answer

These definitions were found on Wordnik:

chest:
- A sturdy box with a lid and often a lock, used especially for storage.
- The part of the body between the neck and the abdomen,
enclosed by the ribs and the breastbone; the thorax.

trunk:
- A large packing case or box that clasps shut, used as luggage or for storage.
- The body of a human or animal excluding the head and
limbs.

I found it interesting that the words were practically synonymous in two very different senses.

As to your comment: dictionaries do not seem to be very specific when defining "trunk" and "chest", that's partly because, much like the storage items themselves, the words are very versatile.

Quite often, you'll find a descriptive word in front of chest: treasure chest, tea chest, tool chest, medicine chest, e.g.

There are other ways the words differ, too: some might call a bureau a chest (or chest of drawers), and many of us carry a key that opens the trunk of our car. I suggest visiting the Wordnik pages for expanded definitions and example uses.

As for using the words in your original sense (to describe an object such as the one depicted below), I think you were onto something when you said we'd be more likely to travel with a trunk than with a chest, but I might use either word to describe the object in the picture.

nouns - Does word order make a difference here?

I was writing an essay and I wrote this particular sentence:

"No bought views"

then, while checking for grammatical errors, I thought that this sentence should be correct this way:

"No views bought"

But I couldn't explain myself, as a non-native English speaker, why the first sentence isn't correct, or if it is correct in some colloquial way.