Knowing the composition of the question in English is considered from the basic skills that wants to learn the language have to be perfected . Asking questions and answers to them form an important part of the language .
In this lesson we will know more about the formation question in English with submit many examples
Question composition elements :
At first we have to know question formation elements which are three main elements :
| Question word + Auxiliary verb + Subject ? |
Frist : Question words
| Question word | Use | Example |
| Where | To ask about the place | Where she is staying ? |
| When | To ask about the time | When is your piano lesson ? |
| Why | To ask about the reason | Why are you late last night ? |
| What | To ask for something | What do you like to eat for breakfast ? |
| Which | Used to choose between two things |
Which of these skirts would you prefer ? |
| Who | To ask about reasonable subject | Who is banging on the door ? |
| How | To ask about the case | How did you draw this wonderful sketch ? |
| Whom | To ask about reasonable object | Whom are you buying all these things for ? |
| Whose | To ask about ownership | Whose babies were they ? |
| How many | To ask about the count of | How many pens are there ? |
| How much | To ask about the mount | Mike, How much blood was there ? |
| How long | To ask about the length | How long was Alice upstairs ? |
| How old | To ask about the age | How old are you ? |
| How far | To ask about the distance | How far can a man walk into the desert ? |
And so we are done the first and the most important element and we can move to the second element .
Secondly : ( Auxiliary verb )
The Auxiliary verb means the verb comes in the sentence to help the main verb to form the question or sentence for example :
| Verb to be → am – is – are / was – were |
| Verb to do → Do – Does – Did |
| Verb to have → Have – Has – Had |
Extra Verbs :
Also there are many verbs which come as Auxiliary verb to clarifies the general situation :
Might – May – Can – Could – Must
Thirdly : Subject
The third element is subject for example :
He – She – It – They - ……….
Ways to ask the question in English :
There are two ways that can be used when we ask in English :
1- open question which consists of the previous three elements and it is called because his answer request more details and information such as :
✔ What does your son Ali look like ?
He is tall with black eyes
2- Closed question which starts the Auxiliary verb directly and its answers are
( Yes- No ) ;
✔ Do you buy the dress?
No, I don't
And so we go to the conclusion of this article after we learned how to compose the question in English .