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    This document discusses question formation and indirect questions in English. It provides examples of different types of questions, including questions using modal verbs, negative questions, questions with prepositions, and questions where who/what/which is the subject. It explains that indirect questions are used to ask questions in a more polite way and begin with phrases like "Can you tell me..." or "Do you know...". Indirect questions follow the word order of subject + verb rather than subject-auxiliary inversion.

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    This document discusses question formation and indirect questions in English. It provides examples of different types of questions, including questions using modal verbs, negative questions, questions with prepositions, and questions where who/what/which is the subject. It explains that indirect questions are used to ask questions in a more polite way and begin with phrases like "Can you tell me..." or "Do you know...". Indirect questions follow the word order of subject + verb rather than subject-auxiliary inversion.

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    1A question formation

    1 Should we buy her a present? How long have you been waiting?
    How many children does your sister have?
    2 Why didn’t you like the movie? Isn’t this a beautiful place?
    3 What are they talking about? Who does this bag belong to?
    4 Who lives in that house? How many people follow you on Twitter?

    1 We make questions with modal verbs and with tenses where there
    is an auxiliary verb (be, have, etc.) by inverting the subject and the
    modal / auxiliary verb. With the simple present and past, we add
    the auxiliary verb do / does or did before the subject.
    2 We often use negative questions to show surprise or when we expect
    somebody to agree with us.
    1A question formation

    1 Should we buy her a present? How long have you been waiting?
    How many children does your sister have?
    2 Why didn’t you like the movie? Isn’t this a beautiful place?
    3 What are they talking about? Who does this bag belong to?
    4 Who lives in that house? How many people follow you on Twitter?

    3 If a verb is followed by a preposition, the preposition comes at the end


    of the question, not at the beginning NOT About what are you talking?
    • We often just use the question word and the preposition, e.g.,
    A I’m thinking. B What about?

    4 When who / what / which, etc., is the subject of the question, we


    don’t use do / did, e.g., Who wrote this? NOT Who did write this?
    1A indirect questions

    Could you tell me what time the store next door opens?
    Do you know if (whether) Mark’s coming to the meeting?

    We use indirect questions when we want to ask a question in a more


    polite way, and begin with Can / Could you tell me…? or when we
    introduce a question with, e.g., Do you know…? Do you remember…?
    Compare:
    What time does the store next door open? (direct question), and
    Could you tell me what time the store next door opens? (indirect question)
    • In indirect questions the order is subject + verb.
    Can you tell me where it is? NOT Can you tell me where is it?
    • We don’t use do / did in the second part of the question.
    Do you know where he lives? NOT where does he live.
    • You can use if or whether in questions without a question word
    (What, How many, etc.) and after Can you tell me, Do you know, etc.
    1A indirect questions

    Other expressions followed by the word order of indirect


    questions
    The word order of indirect questions is used after:
    I wonder…, e.g., I wonder why they didn’t come.
    I’m not sure…, e.g., I’m not sure what time it starts.
    I can’t remember…, e.g., I can’t remember where I left my phone.
    I want to know…, e.g., I want to know what time you’re coming home.
    Do you have any idea…?, e.g., Do you have any idea if (whether)
    James is on vacation this week?

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