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Questions by M. Machado & Y.Sivira

Ch 4 TG

Yes/No Questions Copular Be

Is he a teacher?

Modal Could + verb

Could you do the homework?

Aux is + verb (present participle)

Is she reading right now?

Aux have + verb (past participle)

Has the professor read the essay?

Yes/No Questions Do insertion

He runs everyday (statement)

Does he run everyday? (question)

Positive and Negative Yes/No questions

Positive Negative

Have you been here before? Haven’t you been here before?Are you coming? Aren’t you coming?

Yes/No Questions Expressing Annoyance

Can’t you ever be quite?

Positive Polarity Items (someone, somebody, already)

Didn’t somebody call him?

Reduced yes/no questions

Elliptical Declarative

Yes/No Questions Elliptical Yes/No Questions

Omit auxiliary verbs and copular form of Be

Are you coming to the game? ----> You coming to the game?

Has she been talking to Lily? ----> She been talking to Lily?

Yes/No QuestionsDeclarative Yes/No questions

To check some piece of information A: the food there is great B: You’ve eaten there before?

Repeat something someone has said in order to confirm it

A: I lost my job yesterday B: You lost your job?

Express surprise or amazement A: I can’t believe we lost after being up by 10 points. B: You lost the game?!

Tag Questions Opposite Polarity Tag Questions

If the stem is positive then the tag is negative, and if the stem is negative, the tag is positve.

Laura can come -----> Laura can come, can’t she? She isn’t Venezuelan -----> She isn’t Venezuelan, is she?

Do insertion

She likes him ------> She likes him, doesn’t she?

Tag Questions Same Polarity Tag Questions

Both the stem and the tag are positve.

So, that’s your little game, is it? Well, you won’t get away with it.

Can express imperative statement expressing urgency, polite request and suggestion.

Hurry up, will you!!----> Imperative statement expressing urgency

Open the window, will you? ---> Polite Request I think it’s time to study for the exam, shall we? --->

Suggestion

Tag Questions Exclamations

What a great movie that is! Oh! What a great movie, isn’t it?

Demand Agreement

Do you love it, or what?!

Wh Questions

Question Answer Example

What Object What are you watching?I am watching a movie

Who Person/subject Who did you see?I saw someone

Who needs a lift?Someone needs a lift

Wh Questions Embeded Questions

Only wh movement is applied

Examples

• I have no idea how much this sandwich costs

• I want to know what she was doing

• I want to know where she is going

Wh Questions Information Questions

Question Answer Example

Whose Person Whose book was stolen?Someone’s book…

What Object What did she want?

Where Place Where did john go?

He went somewhere

How Directions/ Feelings/process

How did they do it?They did it somehow

Wh Questions Repeat Please Questions

Question Example

When a. When did Susan come?b. She came this morning

a. She came when?

Wh Questions Elaborate Please Questions

It is used… Example

The asker needs more information

a. Hey, that student over there did not do homework?b. Which student?

Wh Questions Teaching Questions

Yes/No questions

• Twenty questions• What’s my line• Making Excuses• Addressing stage 3 problems• Role Play

Wh questionsForming wh questions

Quiz showWhat are you doing?

Activity

Activity• A young man.• Two rooms and some

simple furniture.• Six miles.• Yes.• No.• Wood.• Some trees.• It’s cold and windy.• Six.• In 1975.

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