🔁 Episode 70 - How Do You Ask Questions in English?

So how are we going to turn every sentence and every tense into a question? Well, you know the basics.

How about this one? Do you speak English? See, that's an easy one.

You know that one.

You've already mastered quite a lot of it.

In general, there are still only two forms.

System one uses our trusted friend, the auxiliary verb to do.

And system two involves changing the order of the words, right? We're just changing them around.

So typically, you speak English becomes, do you speak English? We had the do at the beginning and put the subject after.

So do you speak? They like chocolate becomes, do they like chocolate? You live here becomes, do you live here? So as a rule, we're working with these two different systems where the do, did, and does auxiliary is going to be used for system one.

Remember that she wanted coffee will become, did she want coffee? Now remember the third person singular, that S on the end of your verb, she works from home becomes, does she work from home? So only three forms in the first system.

Do you want? Does she work? Did you know? That works for all the present simple verbs except the verb to be and the past simple.

So what about system two? Well, system two is everything else.

It's the verb to be, it's the modal verbs and it's every other tense that exists in English.

So not the present simple and not the past simple.