Let’s ask questions!
Question words What Who Where How When Why Do you remember these question words? What Who Where How When Why
Let’s remember! Who person Who's that? That's Andrea. Where place Question words Meaning Examples Who person Who's that? That's Andrea. Where place Where do you live? In Boston. Why reason Why do you sleep early? Because I have to get up early. When time When do you go to work? At 7:00. How manner How do you go to work? By car What object, idea or action What do you do? I am an engineer.
Sometimes forming questions in English can be confusing. Don’t worry –you will learn a simple formula that works for asking questions in almost ALL the verb tenses! This formula is called QUASM:
QUASM
QUASM FORMULA: QU estion word A uxiliary verb S ubject M ain verb Look how QUASM works for forming questions in the following verb tenses:
Simple Present Questions QU A S M QUESTION WORD AUXILIARY VERB SUBJECT MAIN VERB Where do you work? What does Martha think about the project? How make brownies? How many kids Bob have?
Simple Past Questions QU A S M QUESTION WORD AUXILIARY VERB SUBJECT MAIN VERB How did they learn English so fast? When you get home from work yesterday?
Now it’s your turn!
Follow the formula and order the questions. QU A S M /weekends/do/what/on/you/do/? / the/ does/ start/ when/ show/? /where/ vacation /on/ you/ did/ go/?
QU A S M What do you do on weekends? When does the show start? Where did you go on vacation?
Follow the formula and write a question! Write a question for the underlined answer: Example: Alvaro lives in Vitacura. Where does Alvaro live? My father plays tennis every day. Pedro studied Math yesterday.
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