{"id":2909,"date":"2022-02-24T03:08:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T03:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The interrogative form is different if the verb is an \u2018auxiliary\u2019 verb (to be, to have, will, can, etc.), or a 'normal' (non-auxiliary) verb.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2><br><strong><span class=\"has-inline-"},"modified":"2022-05-10T11:09:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T11:09:32","slug":"the-interrogative-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordscoach.com\/blog\/the-interrogative-form\/","title":{"rendered":"The interrogative form"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"words-head\" id=\"words-3104458266\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5017566440575750\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5017566440575750\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"3340569236\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The interrogative form is different if the verb is an \u2018auxiliary\u2019 verb (to be, to have, will, can, etc.), or a &#8216;normal&#8217; (non-auxiliary) verb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Interrogative of auxiliary verbs<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>If the verb is an auxiliary verb, the interrogative is formed&nbsp;without&nbsp;the auxiliary&nbsp;do\/does\/did.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Are&nbsp;you Japanese?<\/li><li>Can&nbsp;I&nbsp;ask&nbsp;you a question?<\/li><li>Can I talk to you?<\/li><li>Have you read this book?<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Interrogative of normal verbs (non-auxiliary verbs)&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>If the verb is \u2018normal\u2019, the interrogative is formed&nbsp;with&nbsp;the auxiliary&nbsp;do\/does\/did. As always after an auxiliary verb, the verb is added in the infinitive without&nbsp;to.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Example:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Did she see the movie?<\/li><li>Do&nbsp;you&nbsp;speak&nbsp;English?<\/li><li>Does&nbsp;Rubina&nbsp;live&nbsp;in USA?<\/li><li>Do&nbsp;you&nbsp;like&nbsp;that album?<br><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5017566440575750\" data-ad-slot=\"3406615517\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Inverting the auxiliary to form the interrogative<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The interrogative sentence is formed by&nbsp;inverting&nbsp; (changing the position) the first auxiliary verb.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>You would tell me.&nbsp;=&gt;&nbsp;Would you tell me?<\/li><li>You can&nbsp;swim. =&gt; Can you&nbsp;swim?<\/li><li>Fenil is&nbsp;lucky. =&gt; Is Fenil&nbsp;lucky?<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note: <\/strong>The &#8216;normal&#8217; verb&nbsp;to do&nbsp;is also conjugated with the auxiliary&nbsp;<strong>do\/does\/did.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;1.&nbsp; Does he do his homework on time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; In the case of interrogatives introduced by pronouns (Who, What)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>If the interrogative pronoun is a subject, there is no inversion:<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Who told you this?<\/li><li>Who is here?<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>If the interrogative pronoun is an object, there is an inversion:<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What did he say?<\/li><li>What are you thinking about?<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">Related Blog<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordscoach.com\/blog\/interrogative-adverbs\/\" class=\"rank-math-link\"><strong>What are interrogative adverbs?<\/strong><\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5017566440575750\" data-ad-slot=\"3406615517\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The interrogative form is different if the verb is an \u2018auxiliary\u2019 verb (to be, to have, will, can, etc.), or a \u2018normal\u2019 (non-auxiliary) verb.<\/p>\n<p>Interrogative of auxiliary verbs<br \/>\nInterrogative of normal verbs (non-auxiliary verbs)<br \/>\nInverting the auxiliary to form the interrogative<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,26,25,223],"tags":[29,28,56],"class_list":["post-2909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-english","category-english-grammar","category-interrogative","tag-english","tag-grammar","tag-interrogative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordscoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordscoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordscoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordscoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordscoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordscoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordscoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordscoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordscoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordscoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}