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Writing Questions
Professor MonllorEnglish 031
Yes/No Questions
• These questions are answered with yes or no.
Yes/No Questions
Is this your resumé?
Do you know the answer?
Notice that these questions are different.
Yes/No Questions with Be in the present tense
Yes/No Questions with other verbs in the present tense
IWeYouThey
HeSheIt
In Spanish you can omit the subject, but in English you can’t.
¿Está preocupada?
Is she worried?
In Spanish you can omit the subject, but in English you can’t
¿Ordena su comida?
Does he order his food?
Information QuestionsQuestion Words
What?
Answers a noun or pronoun.
Question Words
When?
At 10:10 am In the morning
Question Words
Where?A
At the movies At the beach
Questions Words
• Who? To Whom? For Whom? With whom?
With whom is he
talking?
Who is she?
To whom does she give the
gift?For whom is the gift?
Question Words
Which? Why?
Which do you want? Why is she sad?
Question Words
How?
angry
young old
Question Words
How many? How much?
How many shoes? Seven shoes.You use how many when youcan count the objects.
How much sugar do youyou put in your coffee?How much coffee do you drink?How much money does hehave?Use how much with thingsyou can’t count.
Information Questions with Be in the present tense
Where are they?
Information Questions with other verbs in the present
How much money does she give you?
Exercise
1. She watches the Oscars every year.2. Rosalyn Sánchez promotes “Relevo por la
vida”.3. The governor of Puerto Rico is Luis Fortuño.4. The professor gives the students an exercise.5. María and Luis meet at 3:00 in Plaza las
Américas every afternoon.6. Jlo dances well.
Information Questions when the answer is the subject of the sentence
• When the answer to the question is the subject of the sentence, you do not use do or does as the auxiliaryverb.• What you do is substitute the subject for the questionwords who or what
What are brown?Her boots are brown.
Ivy Queen has long nails.
Who has long fingernails?
Exercise
• She buys new clothes.• José drives a Jaguar.• They want to eat breakfast.• We are tired.• He is an excellent student.
