Tag questions
- It's 8 o'clock
- Is it? I should go to class
- She's not ready
- Isn't she? She should hurry up!
Tag questions are similar in form to
question tags.
We use affirmative tag question after an
affirmative statement, and a negative tag question
after a negative statement.
We use tag questions to query a
statement.
Question tags
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=plvBNpPKkTc
examples
Today it's Monday, isn't it?
You are vegan, aren't you?
It's snowing, isn't it?
You haven't eat yet, have you?
You bought that skirt in zara, didn't you?
This is from England, doesn't it?
He will tell me, won't he?
They should study for the test, shouldn't they?
We add negative tags to affirmative questions
and affirmative tags to negative questions.
If the sentence includes an auxiliary verb
we use it in the tag.
If the sentence doen't includ an auxiliary
verb, we use do/did in the tag.
If the sentence includes a modal verb
we use it in the tag.
weiss question tags to turn a statement
into a question.
Indirect questions
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xeqdz7TtCs
example
Where do you come from? (direct)
Could you tell me where you come from? (indirect)
Where does she live?
Could you tell me where does she live?
Can you speak English?
Do you know how to speak English?
The verb comes after the subject.
If the equivalent direct question
doesn't have aquestion word, we use if
We don't use axiliaries.
- When we feel that a direct question
might sound rude.
- To introduce a question
Subject and object questions
video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSz3B-uDPGY
2
- Who is living on that flat?
- Which team win the march?
- What did you eat?
- Who do you know at your yoga class?
- Who were you talking with?
- What are you doing?
structure
- When the question word is a subject,
it's followed by a normal affirmative
verb form.
- When the question word it's an object,
it's followed by an interrogative verb form.
- When the question includes a preposition,
we use the object form. We usually put
prepositions at the end.
use
Subject an object questions are used for
when the cuestion word (who/wich/what)
it's the subject or the object in the question.
