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- Yes/No questions, where we start the question with an auxiliary or a modal, and
the answer is always yes or no:
- Open questions or wh- questions, where we start with a wh- word and the
answer is open:
3. Subject and object questions: When the interrogative pronoun works as an object
in the question, we obviously have an auxiliary and a subject as usual, but if the
interrogative pronoun or wh-word works as the subject of the question, we don’t
have an auxiliary.
Who did you come with? (With whom did you come?*)
What do you do that for?
What did you open the bottle with?
6. Questions with How: We can make questions with how and many different
words, such as: long, far, fast, big, tall, much, many, well, …
- When we are asked something, we can give either a long or short answer, never
something in between:
To give a short answer we always use the auxiliary and tense of the question:
- We use tag questions to confirm some information we already know. We use the
auxiliary and tense of the sentence we are confirming, but if it’s affirmative we
give a negative, and if it’s a negative, we give an affirmative.