A2sentence structure17 Fragen
Questions and negatives
Die Regel
Turning a statement into a question or a negative is a mechanical operation in English, and the mechanics are worth doing slowly until they are automatic.
Merk dir
- Identify the helper: be, a modal, have in a perfect, or none.
- With no helper, insert do, does or did and return the verb to base form.
- A question word goes first, and the inversion happens behind it.
Häufige Falle, die du vermeiden solltest
When the question word is the subject, there is no inversion and no do at all: who called you keeps statement order.
Teste dich selbst
Take five statements through both transformations, then practise the topic.
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