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Questions & Negations

What do the words questions and negations mean in Dutch?

1. vragen en antwoorden
2. Vragen en ontkenningen
3. Vragen en negativiteit

How do you make a question in Dutch?

How do you make a negation in Dutch?

questions and negations with an auxiliary verb

Works the same as in Dutch:

Questions:

Put the auxiliary before the subject of the sentence and add a question mark.

He is having fun happy . Is he having fun?

Negations:

Put the word 'not' after the auxiliary verb

They have done the deed. They have not done the deed.

questions and negations with to be 

Works the same as in Dutch:

Questions:

Put the form of 'to be ' before the subject of the sentence and add a question mark:

He is happy. Is he happy?

Put the word 'not' after the form of to be:

They are friendly. They are not friendly.

questions and negations with only a lexical verb

Works different from  Dutch. with only one verb in the sentence to make a question or negation you have to add the auxiliary verb 'to do' and a question mark or not:

He eats an apple. Does he eat an apple? He does not eat an apple.

They had fun. Did they have fun? They did not have fun.

She ate an apple

1. Does she eat an apple?
2. Did she eat an apple?
3. Ate she an apple?
4. Eats she an apple?

They are working on their presentation.

1. Do they are working on their presentation?
2. Working they on their presentation?
3. Do they work on their presentation?
4. Are they working on their presentation?

The murderer had killed that man.

1. The murderer had not killed that man.
2. The murderer did not kill that man.
3. The murderer did not have killed that man.
4. The murderer had not been killed by that man.

Write down the WH question words you know.

WH-questions 

(=Open Questions)

Who?         - asks for a person: Who is he?

Whose?    - asks for possession: Whose phone is this?

Whom       - asks for a person: For whom did you do this?

+ preposition?

What?      - asks for things: What did he say?

What        - ask for things or persons in large numbers:      

+ noun?      What countries have you visited?

WH-questions

Which?         - asks for things or persons in limited number: 

                            Which topics did you study? Physics or history? 

Where?         - asks for a place: Where is the city of The Hague?    

When?           - asks for a time: When is this lesson finished?

Why?              - asks for a reason: Why are you unhappy?

How?             - asks for a way of doing: how did he do that trick?

................ is the capital of Greece situated?

1. Who
2. What
3. How
4. Where

...... did that murderer get away with it?

1. When
2. How
3. What
4. Which

.... cities did you visit?

1. Which
2. Where
3. When
4. Whose

.......... tiny house is this?

1. Who
2. Whom
3. Where
4. Whose

....... did you go to the cinema last week?

1. Who
2. With whom
3. Where
4. Why

WH-Questions 

AND: 

asking for the Subject or the Direct Object:

Silvia saw Paul last week.

Who saw Paul? Silvia. (Silvia saw him) = asking for the Subject

Who did Silvia see? Paul ( She saw Paul) = asking for the Direct Object

John broke the window.
(asking for the subject)

1. Who did John break?
2. What did John break?
3. Who broke the window?
4. What did break the window?

I bought something. (asking for the Direct Object)

1. What did you buy?
2. Who bought something?
3. What bought you?
4. Who did you buy?