Hey guys! How is everything"?
Well, you've seen how to claim your bags at the airport
and learned a few sentences!
And now we can delve into how to make questions in English
using the interrogative form and the question words!
In English, for the interrogative form,
we usually place the verb before the subject of the sentence.
With the verb "to be", we invert the order and the subject
in the affirmative form in the simple present, look here!
This is the affirmative form,
here there's a subject and verb "to be" in the present.
In the interrogative form,
simply invert the positions of the subject and the verb "to be".
Take a look!
With other verbs in the simple present, we'll need the auxiliary verb "do",
which, in general, won't be used in the affirmative form.
Look!
In the affirmative form we have subject, verb and complement.
For example:
To form the interrogative,
we need to add the auxiliary "do" before the subject.
So, it goes like this:
Just a reminder that "do" over there is just an auxiliary verb
and it has no meaning.
Here, the word "airports" is in the plural form,
which means that it could be substituted by the pronoun "they".
Therefore, we use "do".
We use "do" for "I", "Do" and "They".
When we talk about the third person singular,
"he", "she" or "it" then the verb conjugation is different.
In the affirmative form, it'll be like this:
Here, I'm talking about one airport,
so, the corresponding pronoun would be "it".
In this case, I need to use the verb "have" for the third person, "has".
And how about making a question?
Will I need to use another auxiliary?
The answer is yes! Look!
Note that besides using "does" before the subject in the interrogative,
the main verb goes back to its main form, "have".
The present continuous works the same way.
Do you remember that it's used to talk about actions in progress in the present?
In this case the difference is the auxiliary verb,
which is the verb "to be".
Not the verb "to do".
One more thing, the auxiliary is also in the affirmative form.
So, let's remember its base structure in the affirmative form.
There's a subject "I", the verb "to be" in the present, "am",
and the main verb in the form "ing", "coming".
To make the interrogative form, we'll follow the same pattern
and put the auxiliary verb before the subject.
So, we'll have:
Let's look at another example in the affirmative!
In the interrogative:
When we're dealing with modal verbs like "can",
we follow the same pattern in the structure.
Take a look!
The base structure of modal verbs is as follows.
In the affirmative form:
In the interrogative,
I'll again invert the positions of the subject and the model verb,
which is an auxiliary verb.
Look!
Well, guys, when we put the sentence in the interrogative form like that,
you are expected to hear one of these two different answers:
"Yes" or "no".
But when we want to know more specific information,
such as where, when, what, which and how,
we need to use the question words.
And how do add the question words to the sentence when we form the question?
It's very simple, guys!
In general, just use the sentence in the interrogative form
and add a question word in the beginning.
I'll start with an example using the verb "to be".
Here, I have the interrogative form of the verb "to be", "is",
and the subject "next flight" and the complement "to Orlando."
And what did we do?
We only added "when" to the beginning of the sentence.
Easy right?
But how about the other verbs in the simple present?
No problem at all! Same structure, look!
Since we have the subject "I",
we must use the auxiliary verb "do" to ask the question.
So, just take this interrogative structure from "I get to the baggage claim area",
and put "how" in the beginning of the sentence.
Now, let's analyze and example in the present continuous.
Note that I used the question word "what",
and put it before the present continuous interrogative structure.
which is verb "to be", subject, and verb in the "ing" form.
With modal verbs, it'll be as simple as the other ones!
Just use the question word before the interrogative form of the sentence.
Look at this example!
Note that we use "where" and then there's the modal verb "can",
the subject and then the main verb.
That is the interrogative form of the modal verbs.
It's very easy to ask questions in English!
But now it's time to practice!
So, make sure you do the follow-up activities and I'll see you next class!
Have a good one guys!