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The document provides an overview of direct question forms in English, focusing on yes/no questions, subject and object questions, and question expressions. It includes examples and explanations on how to structure various types of questions using auxiliary verbs and question words. Additionally, there are exercises for practice on forming and completing questions.

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The document provides an overview of direct question forms in English, focusing on yes/no questions, subject and object questions, and question expressions. It includes examples and explanations on how to structure various types of questions using auxiliary verbs and question words. Additionally, there are exercises for practice on forming and completing questions.

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Life

Intermediate Unit 1b(1)


Question forms: direct questions

Can I ask you a question? Who telephoned the


newspapers?

Have the police been to your home?


Which secretary spoke
to journalists?
Do they want to interview your wife?

How long has the Prime


What have they been looking for? Minister known?

Presentation

Yes/No questions Object questions


To ask questions requiring the answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’, you In an object question you need a question word, an
use an auxiliary verb (e.g. be, do, have, can) followed by auxiliary verb and a subject. The auxiliary verb comes
the subject: before the subject. Use the auxiliary verbs do, does, did
Can I ask you a question? Are you going to resign? with the present simple and the past simple:
Have the police been to your home? What did the journalists ask?
Do they want to interview your wife? How much did the Prime Minister know?

Subject and object questions Question expressions


You can ask questions about the subject or the object of As well as single question words such as what, when,
a verb using what, who, which, whose, how much and who, where, which, how, you can also use multi-word
how many. expressions such as what time, what sort, what type, what
subject object kind, how much, how many, how well, how big:
What time are you giving the press conference?
The journalists asked a lot of difficult questions.
What sort/type/kind of career do you want?
A subject question asks about the subject of the verb: How much does the Prime Minister know?
Who asked the questions? The journalists.
Questions with like
An object question asks about the object of the verb: Use questions with What … like? to ask for a description:
What did the journalists ask? A lot of difficult questions. What’s he like? (kind and friendly)
What does she look like? (short and blonde with glasses)
Subject questions
In subject questions, the question word (who, what, Questions with prepositions
how many journalists) is the subject of the verb. The
In everyday speech, you put prepositions at the end of
verb follows the question word and there is no other
the question:
pronoun.
What were they looking for?
How many journalists came to interview the minister?
(don’t say How many journalists they came to interview With questions about time, you don’t need the
the minister?) preposition at.
You do not normally use the auxiliary verbs do, does or What time are you giving a press conference at?
did in subject questions. (don’t say How many journalists
did come to interview the minister?)

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Intermediate Unit 1b(1)
Exercises

Exercises
1 Write the missing auxiliary verbs in these yes/no questions.
1 Am I late for the press conference? 4 Does he think no one cares?
2 Does the Prime Minister going to make 5 Did you get a photograph of his
a statement? wife yesterday?
3 Have that journalist telephoned yet? 6 Has he already left the house by
the time you arrived?
2 Complete the subject and object questions about this news report.

met
1 W
 hich minister the Prime Minister this morning? The Minister
for Education.
2 What time did he meet the Prime Minister? At ten o’clock.
3 How long Mr Fortescue spent with his ex-boss? Thirty minutes.
4 What he told to the waiting newspaper reporters? That he had resigned.
5 Where did he return immediately? To his home.
6 How many children he has ? Three.
7 Who made an official statement? The Prime Minister’s Press Secretary.
8 W hat reason Mr Fortescue gave for leaving? That he couldn’t continue as a politician
while the police were investigating his private life.
3 Complete the telephone conversation. Write one word in each gap. Then listen and check.
Customer: Hello. I’m calling about your camping equipment.
Supplier: Sure. What exactly 1 are you looking for?
Customer: I need a tent.
Supplier: 2 What
kind of tent?
Customer: I’ve seen one called ‘The Bonnington Mountain Tent’. What 3 is it like?
How 4 much people can sleep in it?
Supplier: It’s for two people.
Customer: I see. And 5 when I use it in any season?
Supplier: It depends on the weather. What time of year 6 are you planning to use it?

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