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Questions. Direct questions (1) Yes/No questions. Word order: AV S FV the rest ? (AV=auxiliary verb, S=subject,FV=full verb) We answer them using YES or NO and the auxiliary verb. Example:

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  1. Questions

  2. Direct questions (1) Yes/No questions • Word order: AV S FV the rest ? (AV=auxiliary verb, S=subject,FV=full verb) • We answer them using YES or NO and the auxiliary verb. • Example: • Do you live here? Will Tom be here tomorrow? Are they happy together? Didn‘t you hear the bell? Isn‘t it a beautiful day?

  3. Direct questions (2) WH- questions • Word order: Wh-wordAV S FV the rest ? (AV=auxiliary verb, S=subject,FV=full verb) • We can answer them using a whole sentence. • Example: • What do you do? Whatkind of books do you like most? Who did she meet ? Who prepared the meal? Which bus goes to the city centre? Whose book is this? How many brothers does she have? How often do you play the piano? How tall are you? Where do you come from?

  4. Questions with a preposition at the end • Many verbs need a preposition: • (e.g. talk to, dance with, look at, look for) • In questions we put the preposition at the end. • Who did she dance with? • What are you looking at? • Who is she talking to? • What are you waiting for?

  5. Subject and object questions • In objectquestions the wordorderis: Who/What/Which AV S FV the rest ? e.g. Whodidshedancewith? • In subjectquestions the wordorderis: Who/What/Which FV the rest ? • Whodancedwith her?

  6. Indirect questions (1) • They have the same word order as the positive statement and there is NO auxiliary verb. • Example: • Wheredoes Tom live?  I wonder where Tom lives. • Did she meet her mother?  Do you know if/whether she met her mother?

  7. Indirect questions (2) • Indirect questions are more polite. • We usually use these expressions to start indirect questions: • I wonder, I can‘t remember, I‘ve no idea, I‘d like to know, I‘m not sure, Could you tell me, Do you know, Do you happen to know, Have you any idea, Do you remember, I‘d like to ask

  8. Question tags (1) • Question tags are mini-questions that we often put at the end of a sentence in spoken English to involve the listener into the conversation. • We use a pronoun and an auxiliary verb in patterns: • positive sentence – negative tag • negative sentence – positive tag

  9. Question tags (2) • We repeat the auxiliary verb in the tag. If there is no auxiliary, we use DO/DOES/DID (according to the tense used in the statement). • Example: • You haven‘t been here before, have you? You can speak French, can‘t you? Banks close at six, don‘t they? Mary won‘t be late, will she? They aren‘t happy, are they? • BUT: I‘m stupid, aren‘t I? Let‘s go, shall we? Open the door, will you?

  10. Question tags (3) • Answers to question tags: • You are going with us, aren‘t you? YES. (= I‘m going) / NO. (= I‘m not going.) • You aren‘t going with us, are you? YES. (= I‘m going) / NO. (= I‘m not going.)

  11. Question tags (4) • The meaning of a question tag depends on how you say it: • 1)The voice in a tag falls: the speaker expects people to agree with him: It‘s a nice day, isn‘t it? • 2)The voice goes up: the speaker isn‘t absolutely sure that he knows the answer and asks for confirmation: Your name‘s Sam, isn‘t it? • 3)The voice goes up in negative s. + positive tag: the speaker asks sb. to do st.: You couldn‘t lend me a pen, could you?

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