TRANSFORMATION OF INTERROGATICE SENTENCES.pptx

Presentation on transformation of interrogative sentences. Types of sentences and types of interrogative sentences . B. Com LL.B First year presentation . How to transform interrogative sentences to statements.
Wh- questions with examples.
Yes/No question with example . Including transformation exercises

1. TRANSFORMATION OF INTERROGATIvE SENTENCES CHRISTY JOE KOTTACKAL B.COM LLB , FIRST YEAR ROLL NO :24

2. INTRODUCTION TO INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES The Interrogative sentence is a sentence that asks a question . These types of sentences ends with an question mark (?). Interrogative sentences may begin with i ) Wh – word or ii)Auxiliary verbs. Examples: Where are you coming from? What are you wearing? Aren’t you going there?

3. In the majority of interrogative sentences the auxiliary verb is placed before the subject or question word . Therefore it is different from statements in its pattern . Wh -interrogatives This question starts with the question words. There are 9 question words available in the English language and are known as wh-words because excluding “how”, all other question words start with W h - When, Why, Who , Which, What, Where, Whom, Whose and How

4. WHERE: To get information regarding the location or position, we use the “where” as an adverbial that possibly is the object of a preposition.  Examples Where should I deliver the birthday greeting? (position) Where does this pet come from? (Object of the preposition,) WHEN: It is used to determine the occasion, time, etc. Examples: When will he reach the stadium? When did the chief guest arrive?

5. WHY : It is used to understand the reason or seek an explanation; however “, why don’t “is used to provide a recommendation. Examples: Why are you feeling low? Why didn’t you come to play yesterday? WHAT : It is a pronoun, which can be a subject or object. We need to understand that there will be no inversion of the subject and verb when the question words are the subject. Examples: What smells foul? (subject, no inversion) What train can you board? (determiner)

6. WHICH : It can be used as a pronoun and determiner.  Examples: Which colour do you like? (determiner) Which of these outdoors do you prefer to play? Which one is the most lovable cartoon character? WHOSE : It refers to the pronoun possessive form, i.e. “ who.” Examples: Whose mobile phone is that? Whose house is more luxurious?

7. HOW : is used to ask both direct and indirect direct questions to obtain valuable knowledge regarding the amount of distance for expressing the degree level. Examples: How many students are there in this playing cricket team? How much money does John require a month? How was your day? Yes /No questions These are the questions that can be responded to with either “yes” or “ No”. These types of questions can be formed with formed using the auxiliary verbs.

8. Examples: Do you go to the school auditorium daily? Did you meet your school friend yesterday? May I come with you? Are you happy? I s this your pen ? Am I happy ? Was she ill? Must they take rest? Did you see my keys? Have you read my messages? Had your breakfast ?

9. If the assertive sentences contains an anomalous finite such as am ,is ,are, was, were, has ,have, had, will, would ,shall, should, can , could, may, might, ,must , dare, need ,ought, used, does, do, did , such finite occupies the first place in interrogative sentence. The verb used after it should belongs to present tense . Similarly ‘to’ is always preceded by a verb of the present tense. Example: Am I not happy? Does he like oranges? Is it the way to behave ?

10. Who , what, which, whom , whose are interrogative pronouns Whose ,what, which are interrogative adjectives When , where, why , how and combination such as how long , how far, how much, how many , how often” are interrogative adjectives. The interrogative pronoun ‘who’ has 2 different forms for the nominative , genitive and accusative cases. Example: (subject) Nominative : Who (possessive) Genitive :Whose (Object)Accusative :Whom ( in spoken language ‘who’) ‘who’ is used for persons only . Eg : Who goes there?

11. When we ask ‘Who is he ?’ ‘who’ refers to person but it actually mean “ What is his name and family” ‘which’ and ‘what’ do not have different forms for different cases. Which is used for both persons and things . It implies selection , that is ,it implies a question concerning a limited number. Eg: Which is you friend ? (person) Which are you things?(things) ‘what ‘ is used of things only. what do you want ? In the questions ‘What are you?’ ‘What is he?’ what refers to a person but his profession or employment .

12. Compound Interrogative pronouns such as “whichever, whatever” , etc Eg: Whoever told you? In spoken English ‘what for?’ is used with two different meanings. What are you crying for ? (=why?) What’s this money for ? (=for what purpose ?)

13. IN MODERN SPOKEN ENGLISH ‘POSITIONALS ‘ ARE USED AS FOLLOWS To get answer of ‘here’ and ‘there’ , we use the positional of ‘ where?’(=place) ‘hither’ and ‘thither’ , we use the positional of ‘whither’(=to) ‘hence’ and ‘thence’ we use the positional of ‘whence’(=from)   At To From Question where whither whence Near here hither hence Far there thither thence  

14. Transformation of Interrogative and Assertive Sentences Interrogative sentences can sometimes be changed into Assertive sentences (statements)and vice versa without any change in meaning . But it is possible only with rhetorical question . ( rhetorical question is one that does not expect an answer). It is used for effect . It is mainly used to give emphasis to the statement QUESTION STATEMENT Eg: Isn’t blood thicker than water? Blood is thicker than water. Does any one succeed like success? Nothing succeeds like success. Can you gather grapes from thorns? You can’t gather grapes from thorns.

15. EMBEDDED QUESTIONS An embedded question is the one which is included in a sentence or another question. There must not be an auxiliary between the question word and the subject . Embedded questions end with full stop(.) When embedded in sentence: syntax: Subject +Verb (phrase) +question word + subject + verb Eg : We haven’t ascertained where the meeting will take place . Question: Where will the meeting take place ? When embedded in another question: syntax: auxiliary +sub +verb + question word + sub +verb Eg: Do you know where he went ?

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