How to ask questions in English.

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Finn
Can you speak English? you speak English?

Neil
Yes I , thanks Finn. That’s a useful first question.

Sophie
Yes, and it’s made with the auxiliary verb , plus the subject you and a verb: speak. Can you speak? Can you speak English Neil?

Neil
Yes, I can. Another question please Finn?

Finn
you work every day? you work every day?

Sophie
Auxiliary do, subject , verb work. Do you work every day, Neil?

Neil
I , no. I don't work at weekends. Finn?

Finn
Do you have brothers or sisters?

Sophie
Auxiliary do, subject you, verb: . Neil, do you have any brothers or sisters?

Neil
Yes I : I've got one sister. Now another way to make yes-no questions is with the verb to be plus a subject.

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Let’s demonstrate. Sophie: you married?

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Sophie
No, Neil, ,Is your boss married?

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Neil
My boss? No, he .

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you in the office yesterday?

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Sophie
Yes, sadly I in the office yesterday.

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Neil
And we're talking about question forms.

Sophie
Now, the second main type of question in English starts with either what, , when, which, why, who, or the odd one out:

Neil
… how.

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Sophie
So let’s try making a question with where. We add an auxiliary…

Neil
… such as do

Sophie
… then we can add a subject plus a verb. For example: Neil, do you live? do you live?

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Neil
I live in south London. Where you live, Sophie?

Sophie
I live in north London. Now let’s change the question word and the verb. Which languages you speak?

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Neil
And here we add a noun to which: Which do you speak?

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Sophie
Just English. And with a different auxiliary: Which languages you speak?

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Neil
We can add nouns to some of the other question words: What do you start work?

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Sophie
About 9 o'clock in the morning. And if we ask, 'What time is it?' we’re making a w-h question with the verb to be. I can ask: Where you born?

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Neil
I was born in England. When your birthday?

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Sophie
In September. is your work address?

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Neil
It's W1A. Lots of useful questions with to be there. Now for a very personal question with to be: Sophie, How are you?

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Sophie
You should never ask a woman her age! And for questions with how, we usually add an extra word. To ask about age it’s:

Finn
How old…

Sophie
For price it’s:

Finn
much…

Neil
For size we ask:

Finn
How big…

Sophie
And for height it’s

Finn
tall.

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Sophie
How are you, Neil?

Neil
About 180cm. And of course, you can’t answer a 'wh' question with yes or no. How tall are you, Sophie?

Sophie
I think we're actually the same height.

Neil
Let me see, back to back… No, I'm taller!

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How much can you remember?

Questions are formed by adding an auxiliary verb after the 'question word' (interrogative pronoun).

True.

False.

None

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The auxiliary verbs DO, DID and WILL tell us:

That we are asking a question.

The tense (present, past or future) of the question.

That we are negating a verb.

All of the above.

None

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"To be" is similar to "can" because we can form questions and negatives with these verbs by inverting them with the subject.

True.

False.

None

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In questions the always follows the auxiliary verb and precedes the main verb.

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A 'yes' or 'no' question begins with:

question word (interrogative pronoun)

a subject.

an auxiliary verb.

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The question word 'how' means 'quantity' with 'much, many or ___________:

an adjective.

a noun.

Both of the above.

None

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