passive questions VS questions with adjectives
Are you allowed to say that?
Are you attracted to me?
Were you born in a barn?
What’s it called?
interrogatives
- An ‘interrogative’ sentence is a question.
- It is one of the four types of sentences in regards to uses in
communication.
negative interrogative clauses
Negative interrogative clauses are interrogative sentences that are made negative. They are often used to imply that the speaker is expecting a certain answer or for emphatic effect. For example, “Aren’t you coming?” is a negative interrogative clause because it is a question that is made negative by the word “not”. Here is another difficult …
questions with modal verbs
Let’s start with A1 grammar to explain how to form modal verb questions when asking for something. Here is an affirmative declarative sentence: I can get some help. To form a yes/no question with a modal auxiliary verb, invert the subject and the modal verb I can → Can I follow it with the bare …
WH- questions (no auxiliary)
How | What + about + NOUN PHRASE ? = A2 suggesting or offering something to someone | B1 ask for someone’s opinion on a particular subject (EVP)
In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 67 in the category of CLAUSES/interrogatives is defined as:
questions with a ‘wh-‘ word as the subject, without an auxiliary verb.
WH questions
‘WH-‘ questions expect a reply that supplies information. The wh-word can be a pronoun: What made you think that? (listen to this question) adverb: Where did it go? (listen) or a determiner: Which part? (listen) A search for the most common questions in the iWeb corpus with: _ddq _v _p _v ? 1 WHAT DO YOU THINK? (‘what’ …
negative question adverb
There are a number of overlapping points when it comes to negative questions in the English Grammar Profile. At a purely formal level, we can identify an adverb position in a negative question to identify B2, but at usage level, some of these would be considered rhetorical or persuasive strategies found at the more advanced …
WHICH | WHOSE + subject noun + verb (questions)
There is no evidence of when students can use “which” or “whose”.
surprise enthusiasm or negative exclamation
In the English Grammar Profile, B2 point 86 in the category of CLAUSES is defined as: phrases or exclamations where the negative interrogative form of an auxiliary verb is used to express surprise or enthusiasm. This is a real challenge to search for. Surprise and enthusiasm are not something you can formally search for, but …