This document discusses various ways to form questions in English through subject-verb inversion and the use of auxiliary verbs. It covers question formation with modal verbs like "could" and "would", the verb "to be", perfect tenses with "have", questions with "do/does" in the present and "did" in the past, negative questions, questions with prepositions, question words as subjects or objects, and indirect questions.

1. Intermedio 2
QUESTION FORMATION

2. INVERSION SUBJECT/VERB
With modal verbs, including “will”, “would” and “shall”:
Ex.: Could you lend me 1 million euros?
Would you accept a job for €300 a month?
With the verb “to be”:
Ex.: Are you crazy?
With “have” in the perfect tenses:
Ex: Have you ever seen “Breaking Bad”
With “have got”:
Ex.: Have you got 1million euros?

3. Adding an auxiliary
“Do/does” in the present tense, before the subject:
Ex.: Do you like the English class?
Does he have a million euros?
“Did” in the past simple, before the subject:
Ex: Did she really meet George Clooney at his wedding?

4. NEGATIVE QUESTIONS
Often express surprise:
Ex: Why didn’t you come to the English class yesterday?
Often used when you expect somebody to agree with you:
Ex.: Isn’t the English teacher simply fantastic?

5. QUESTIONS AND PREPOSITIONS
In questions with verbs followed by prepositions, the
preposition is placed at the end:
Ex: What are you talking about?
Often we just use the question word and the preposition:
Ex. I’m studying English. What for?

6. QUESTIONS WORDS AS SUBJECTS
No auxiliaries are added in the present simple or past tenses
to make the following distinction:
Question word as subject:
Ex.: Who killed the teacher? A student killed him.
Subject Subject
Question word as direct object:
Ex: Who did the teacher kill? He killed a student.
Object Subject Object

7. INDIRECT QUESTIONS
Questions within other questions
The order is Subject+Verb (no inversion):
Ex.: Could you tell me where EOI Carabanchel is?
Subject Verb
Auxiliaries “do”, “does” or “did” are not used:
Ex.: Do you know where he works?
Do you remember what the teacher said yesterday?
We use “if” or “whether” in YES/NO questions:
Ex.: Do you know if/whether the English teacher is very
strict?