1000 common english questions and answers

Knowing how to ask questions in English is a key skill. Most of us ask questions all the time, whether we want permission to eat the last slice of cake, to keep on top of the latest gossip in our neighborhood, or just to know what time a movie starts.

For people who are learning English, getting the structure right can be tricky, so we’re going to talk about how to form questions in English and give you lots of examples.

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What is a question?

Before we get started, we need to know the difference between a statement and a question.

When we ask questions, we are requesting information about something. Statements give information.

Types of questions in english pdf

Take a look at this exchange:

Question: How are you? 

Statement: I’m fine, thanks. 

There are different ways to ask questions depending on the information we want to get. We’re focusing on yes/no questions and wh- questions.

Yes/no questions

The first type of question we’re looking at are yes/no questions.

These are also called closed questions because the answer is either yes or no (or maybe!). To form a yes

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