Question Words

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Today i would like to share what i learned from https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org.
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I find it very useful to review and learn the basic grammar.
One of the material i review is the usage of Question Words.

Question Words is used :
  • To form yes/no questions where there is an auxiliary verb or a modal verb
  • We invert the word order of a positive sentence (Answer : S + V, in Question we use V + S)

Yes/No questions
  • Is he a teacher? Yes he is.
  • Can you swim? No, I can’t.
  • Have they got a car? Yes they have.
To form yes/no questions where there is an auxiliary verb or a modal verb, we invert the word order of a positive sentence. (He is a teacher > Is he a teacher?
Note : when it contains only Subject + Verb (V1/V2/V3) + (Object) , in question form, we use the Do/Did (Did is used if the verb in positive sentence is in V2 form)+ Subject + Verb 1
  • Do you eat fish? No I don’t.
  • Do + S + V1
    • You don't eat fish
    • S     +   V1
  • Does she know you. Yes she does.
    • She knows you.

With question words

The same rules apply when there is a question word (‘what’, ‘where’, ‘when’, ‘why’, ‘who’, ‘which’, ‘how’, ‘how much’, ‘how many’)
  • Where is the hotel?
  • What can you smell?
  • Who has just arrived?
Where there is an auxiliary or modal verb, that verb is used to form the question.
  • How did you get here?
  • When do your parents get back?
  • How much does it cost?

Subject/Object questions

Sometimes you might see questions like this.
  • Who broke the window?
  • What happened next?
  • Who told you that?
There is no auxiliary verb and the word order is not inverted.

These are called subject questions – because the question word is the subject of the sentence.

Look at these two questions.
  • Who does Romeo love? Romeo loves Juliet.
  • Who loves Romeo? Juliet loves Romeo.
In the first question, Romeo is the subject of the verb.
In the second question ‘who’ is the subject and Romeo is the object.

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