Questions: yes-no questions
Do you like juice mango? (answer: yes
or no)
Forming yes-no
questions
With an
auxiliary verb
We form yes-no questions with an auxiliary verb
(be, do or have) + subject + main verb or with a modal verb +
subject + main verb:
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Be: Is she working very
hard?
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Were they
travelling together?
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Do: Does that taste okay?
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Did you go to
the concert?
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Have: Have they eaten yet?
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Had they
visited Rome before?
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Modal: Could you help me
lift this?
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Should I open
the window?
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Where there is no auxiliary verb be, have
or modal verb already present in the statement, we use the auxiliary do,
does, did:
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Statement form (no auxiliary)
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Question form
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You usually walk to work.
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Do you
usually walk to work?
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You liked disco music in the 70s.
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Did you
like disco music in the 70s?
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We don’t use an auxiliary verb when we use be
as a main verb:
Is she your
sister?
Auxiliary + subject + auxiliary +
verb
Is this phone
call being recorded?
Auxiliary + subject + auxiliary +
verb
Has the garden been
looked after while you were away?
Modal + subject + auxiliary +
auxiliary + verb
Should we have
been writing this down?
We only put auxiliary and modal verbs, not main verbs,
before the subject:
Where did you find the keys?
Without an
auxiliary verb
When we ask yes-no questions using the main
verb be, we don’t use an auxiliary verb. The word order is: be +
subject:
Is the weather nice in
Turkey in the winter?
Was she angry when
you told her about the accident?
When we ask yes-no questions with the main verb
have, we can also use the word order verb + subject, but it sounds
rather formal. We use have got and do as more neutral or informal
alternatives:
Have you an
identity card? (formal)
Do you have
an identity card? (neutral)
Have you got
an identity card? (informal)
Did you have
your glasses with you when you left the car?
Had you got
your glasses with you when you left the car? (less common)
Negative yes-no
questions
Isn’t that
Pauline’s car? (I’m pretty sure that this is correct. I’m asking for
confirmation.)
Shouldn’t we be
leaving? (I think that we should leave now.)
We form negative yes-no questions with not.
We usually use the contraction n’t. If we use not in its full
form, the question sounds very formal:
Isn’t that the oldest
building on this street?
[AUX][s]Is that [not]not the
oldest building in this street? (formal) (preferred to [the very
formal] Is not that the oldest building on this
street?)
We can use negative yes-no questions to make
invitations, offers and complaints stronger:
Won’t you stay for dinner? (invitation; stronger than Will
you stay for dinner?)
Wouldn’t you like another coffee? (offer; stronger than Would you
like another coffee?)
Can’t the manager do something about the noise? (complaint; stronger than Can
the manager do something about the noise
Source : https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/questions-and-negative-sentences/questions-yes-no-questions-are-you-feeling-cold
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