Wh-Question And Yes/No Question
October 22nd, 2019 in ESL
WH-question
A question which uses a WH-word (e.g. when, what, why, which, where, who and how) and which expects an answer other than yes or no.
Examples are:
•Where is John?
•What are you doing?
•Why are you crying?
Yes-No question
A question which expects yes or no as an answer.
Examples are:
•Are you coming with us?
•Is she ready?
•Has John come yet?
In English, a yes-no question differs from its corresponding statement only in word order. For example, the statement She is coming with us has the corresponding yes-no question Is she coming with us?, in which the auxiliary is is moved to the beginning of the sentence.
Change is used with a plural object when we talk about changing one thing for another.
I have just changed jobs.
Will I have to change trains?
You must change the batteries regularly.
Could you change the sheets in the guest room?
Verbal noun
A noun which is derived from a verb.
A verbal noun exhibits all the ordinary properties of nouns and none of the properties of verbs.
In English, verbal nouns are constructed with a variety of suffixes: arrive (verb)/arrival (noun), decide (verb)/decision (noun), destroy (verb)/destruction (noun), fly (verb)/flight (noun).
•I am looking for a flight to Tokyo.
•Her decision to quit the job startled us.
It is possible for a verbal noun to be identical in form to its source verb, as in return (verb)/return (noun) and attack/attack.
It is also possible for a verbal noun to be formed with the suffix –ing.