Questions to the subject and the object of the sentence

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 495.

Questions to the subject of the sentence or its attribute

Tag-questions

Alternative questions

They begin with an auxiliary verb and have or + an alternative

E.g.: Do you like classical or pop music?

Have you bought five or six cakes?

Did they stay in London or in Brighton?

They are formed with the auxiliary verb used to form general questions in each grammar tense. If the sentence is positive, the tag question is negative and if it is negative, the tag-question is positive.

E.g.: He likes cats, doesn't he?

They are not our students, are they?

She has been working here for five years, hasn't she?

There are no armchairs here, are there?

But! I am right, aren't I?

We put the tag-question “will you” at the end of a request to make it more polite.

E.g.: Close the door, will you?

We put the tag-question “shall we” at the end of a question if it is a suggestion to do something together.

E.g.: Let's go to the garden to have tea, shall we?

Questions to the subject of the sentence or its attribute begin with “who”, “what”, “which” “whose”.They don't change the structure and word order of the sentence.

E.g. She was there with us.

Who was there with us? – She was.

E.g. Who has done this exercise? – We have.

E.g. Two of them liked our proposal.

Which of them liked our proposal? – Two of them did.

Remember: “Who” is always singular.

If the subject and the object of the sentence are personal nouns the question starts with “who”, but the word order is different.

Compare:

E.g.Mary saw Claire at the station.

Who saw Claire at the station? – Mary did.

Who did Mary see at the station? – Mary saw Claire.