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subject and object questions

Indirect questions are used when we want to make a question less direct, often to sound more polite. The structure of an indirect question places the verb after the subject and uses "

subject and object questions

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.