QuestionsDo you …?

Can we …?Did they …?

Does your friend …?

Questions

Structure of questions

Types of questions

Auxiliary verbs

Question words

Subject and object questions

Questions with prepositions

We watch football at home every weekend.

Do you watch football at home every weekend?

Where do you watch football every weekend?

When do you watch football at home?

Question word

Auxiliary verb

Subject Verb Other elements

Do you watch football at home every weekend?

Where do you watch football every weekend?

Do you watch football at home every weekend?

Where do you watch football every weekend?

When do you watch football at home?

Yes / No questions

Wh- questions

Yes, we do / No, we don’t

At home

Every weekend

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Auxiliary verbs

DoDoes

Did

Is / Are

Can, will …

Do you like going to the disco?

Does he like going to the disco?What does your sister study?Did he go to the disco last Saturday?When did he cook this cake?

Are you listening to me now?Where are they playing?

Will you come to the party?

Choosing the right auxiliary verb

I am going to paint my bedroom tomorrow.

When …........ your bedroom?

I am going to paint my bedroom tomorrow.

I painted my bedroom yesterday.I painted my bedroom yesterday.

When …........ your bedroom?

This man paints his bedroom every year.This man paints his bedroom every year.

When …........ his bedroom?

I am painting my bedroom now.I am painting my bedroom now.

What …........ now?

When are you going to paint your bedroom?

When did you paint your bedroom?

When does he paint his bedroom?

What are you doing now?

Question wordsWho Objects or actions

What People

When Reasons

Where Manner

Why Time

Whose Place

How Possession

Who People Who is your teacher?

What Objects or actions What are you doing?

When Time When will you come?

Where Place Where are you from?

Why Reason Why do you study English?

Whose Possession Whose car is this?

How Manner How do you cook this cake?

Question words

....... are those people?

Those people are our neighbours.

Who

....... do they live?

They live in King’s Road.

Where

....... do they walk quickly?

They walk quickly because they are going to work.

Why

....... is the first bus?

The first bus is at 6 o’clock.

When

....... is your favourite drink?

My favourite drink is

orange juice.

What

.......brothers have you got?

I’ve got three brothers.

How many

Subject and object questions

Who loves you?

Who do you love?

No auxiliary verb“Who” is the subject of “loves”

Auxiliary verb ( “do” )“you” is the subject of “love”

My girlfriend loves me

I love my girlfriend

To make subject questions, we don’t use auxiliary verbs.

The word order is:Question word + main verb + info

Who built the Grand Palace?

What eats bananas?

Who lives in that old house?

Subject questions

To make object questions, we use auxiliary verbs and the infinitive of the main verb.

The word order is:Question word + Aux + subject +main verb

Object questions

What did she make?

When does the train leave?

Where do you live?

Subject or object question?

Where do you live?

Who lives in that house?

Who broke the window?

What time do you go to bed?

How long have you been waiting for me?

When is the World cup?

Where do you live?

Who lives in that house?

Who broke the window?

What time do you go to bed?

How long have you been waiting for me?

When is the World cup?

In English, many verbs are connected with their complements by means of a preposition. Study the following examples:

Questions with prepositions

We usually talk about sports when we meet.

I listen to pop music mainly.

My sister works for a multinational company.

The children went out with their grandfather.

I need a new flute for my music lessons.

TASK: Write questions for the following sentences:

1. This present is for my best friend.

Who is this present for?

2. The children played with the neighbours.

Who did the children play with?

3. This ball is made of rubber and plastic.

What is this ball made of?

4. We talked about economy at the meeting.

What did you talk about at the meeting?

5. We are looking at the teacher.

Who are you looking at?

Questions with prepositions