Wh-questions & be Auxiliary, modal verbs are used for seeking content information relating to persons, things, facts, time, place, reason, manner, etc. Wh-questions differ depending on the kind of content information sought.
Form: Question/verb + Subject
2. Word order in question
The Word order refers to the way words are arranged in a sentence.
The standard word order in English is as the following form.
Form: Subject + Verb + Object + Place + Time
Example: Sara drinks lemon juice at the gym everyday.
The standard word order for questioning in English are as the following forms.
Form one: Wh/how with be + Subject
Example: Why are you late?
Form two: Wh/how with auxiliary, or modal verb + Subject + Infinitive.
Example: How does Joseph go to college?
The past tense is a grammatical tense its function is to place an action or situation in past time
Past simple, Positive, negative and question forms:
- Subject + did not + verb
Past continuous, Positive, negative and question forms:
+ Subject + was/were + verb + ing
- Subject + was/were + not + verb + ing
? Was/were + subject + verb + ing
We use the past tense to talk about:
Something that happened once in the past:
Example: I saw Lionel Messi in 2012.
Something that happened several times in the past:
Example: When I was a boy, I played soccer at school everyday.
Something that was true for some time in the past:
Example: We lived abroad for ten years, We were happy.
We often use expressions with ago with the past simple.
Example: He met his wife a long time ago.
