Word order

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• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

Word order

wie

doet

wat

waar

wanneer

The parents

bring

to football training

every Sunday

their son

Wie

doet

wat

waar

waar

Jacky and Pete

are going

to the cinema

tonight

Voorbeelden 

Wie -            doet -                wat/wie  -             waar -           wanneer.

Keith used to watch television in his room at bedtime.

The principal is talking with my friend in his office in building B at the moment.

Yesterday    I   fixed my bike on the side of the road.

Bij vragen komt er een werkwoord voor het

   onderwerp te staan.

 

• Dit geldt niet wanneer who, what, which of how

   many onderwerp van de vraag is.

 

• Tijdsbepalingen kunnen ook vooraan in de zin

   staan, maar in vragen staan ze altijd achteraan.

Bij vragen komt er een werkwoord voor het onderwerp te staan.

 - Is she watching television in her room right now?

 

Dit geldt niet wanneer who, what, which of how many onderwerp van de vraag is.

 - What is your name?

 

Tijdsbepalingen kunnen ook vooraan in de zin staan, maar in vragen staan ze altijd achteraan.

 

Woordvolgorde bij vragen

Bijwoorden 

already

ever

just 

still

almost 

completely

hardly

 

certainly

definitely

obviously 

probably

also

even

just

always 

never

often

sometimes

usually 

nearly 

only 

already 

ever

just

still

almost

completely

hardly 

Bijwoorden 

Plaats van bijwoorden

1. Voor het hoofdwerkwoord.

- My brother often plays video games. 

2. Na een vorm van to be

- We are almost there 

3. In vragen komt het bijwoord na het onderwerp 

- Do you never read?

Choose the sentence with the correct word order.

1. They often go out in the weekends.
2. They go often out in the weekends.

Choose the sentence with the correct word order.

1. Doesn't she go in the weekends out?
2. Doesn't she go out in the weekends?

Choose the sentence with the correct word order.

1. He swims every day in the canal.
2. He swims in the canal every day.

Choose the sentence with the correct word order.

1. Who gives never a straight answer?
2. Who gives a straight answer never?
3. Who never gives a straight answer?
4. Who gives a straight never answer?

Correct word order:
Billy / to his friend /
five minutes ago / went

1. Billy went to his friend five minutes ago.
2. Billy went five minutes ago to his friend.
3. Billy five minutes ago went to his friend.
4. Five minutes ago Billy went to his friend.

Correct word order:
summer / we / here / are / in / usually

1. Usually we are here in summer.
2. We usually are here in summer.
3. We are usually in summer here.
4. We are usually here in summer.

Exercise 

1. Tom - football - play - to - likes

2. live - in - 2019 - Amsterdam - before - did -you - ?

3. has - cat - a - beautiful - uncle - my 

4. will - him - the money - at school - I - tomorrow - give 

5. sister - always - fairy tales - reads  - my

6. did - your books - last week - you - why - sell - online -?