Writing Questions

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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.