Word Order
How to make sentences in English?
There are three types of sentences in English:
1. Affirmative (+)
2. Negative (-)
3. Questions (?) Yes/No Questions Wh-Questions
Affirmative (+)
The word order in the Affirmatives is very
strict. You may not change word order in the
sentence, because people can misunderstand you.
Even if the sentence is long, every word has its own place.
1. Affirmative (+)
1. 2.
Subject Verb
Who?/What? What does/do he/she/it/they/we/you do?
We eat.
2. Affirmative (+)
1. 2. 3.
Subject Verb Object
Who?What do we do? What?
We eat crisps.
Adverbs
Sometimes the Adverbs of Time take the first place in the sentence
The Adverbs of Place are never the first. The Order of Adverbs :
Manner - Place -Time
3. Affirmative (+)
0. 1. 2. 3. 4.
Time Subject Verb Object Time
When?Who?
What do we do? What? When?
On Mondays
we eat crispsduring the
break.
4. Affirmative (+)
0. 1. 2. 3. 5. 6.
Time Subject Verb Object Place Time
When?Who?/ What do
we do?What? Where? When?
On Mondays
we eat crispsin the school
canteen
during the
break.
5. Affirmative (+)
0. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Time Subject Verb Object Manner Place Time
When? Who? What do we do?
What? How? Where? When?
On Mondays
we eat crisps greedily in the school
canteen
during the
break.
Negative (-)
You make negatives with the auxiliary verb and the particle “not” before the verb.
We eat crisps. We do not eat crisps. The other words do not change their place.
1. Negative (-)
1. 2. 3. 4. 3.
SubjectAuxiliary
verb
Particle Verb Object
Who? Invisible Not What do we do? What?
We do not eat crisps.
2. Negative (-)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Subject Auxiliary Verb
Particle Verb Object Manner Place Time
Who? Invisible Not What do
we do?
What? How? Where? When?
We do not eat crisps greedily in the school canteen
during breaks.
Questions (?)
We make questions by adding auxiliary verb (Yes/No) or the question word and the auxiliary verb (Wh-) at the beginning of the sentence.
Other words do not change their place, but some words are omitted.
1.Questions (Yes/No) (?)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Auxilliary Verb
Subject Verb Object Manner Place Time
Invisible Who? What do we do?
What? How? Where? When?
Do we eat crisps greedily in the school
canteen
during break?
2. Questions (W-) (?)
1. 2. 3 4. 5. 6. 7.
Question Word
Auxiliary Verb
Subject Verb Manner Place Time
Invisible Who? What do we do?
How? Where? When?
What do we eat greedily in the school
canteen
during breaks?
Make your own sentences:
(+) works/ every day/ Mary/at home/ hard
(-) Europeans/not/understand/African culture/do
(?) why/go/you/in Norway/every winter/do/skiing
(+) I/my friend/love/computer games/and
(-) do/cats/like/not/dogs
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