Fundamentals Of English Grammar

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QLIRSTION A !R
(a) Where did you go? Pans.
(b) Why did you stay home? Because I diddt feel well.*
Seven-thirty.
(c) What Lims did he come? Around five o'clock.
A quarter past ten.

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Seven-thirty.
Last night.
(d) When did he come? no days ago.
Monday morning.
In 1998.

Where asks about place.

Why ash about wason.

A question with what time asks

about rim on a dock.

A question with when can be

answered by any time expression, as in

the sample answers in (d).

'See Chart 8-6, p 239, for the use of bacause. "Because I didn't feel well'' is an adverb clause. It is not a complete sentence.

In this example, it is the short answer m a question.

EXERCISE 5. Information questions. (Charts 5-2 and 5-3)

Diwctims: Create information questions. Use where, why, when, or what the.

1. A:
   B: Tomorrow. (I'm going to go downtown tomorrow.)


2. A:
   r,, B: At Lincoln Elementary School. (My children go to school at Lincoln Elementary


3. A:
   B: At 1:lO. (Class begins at 1:lO.)


4. A:
   B: Four years ago. (I met the Smiths four years ago.)


5. A: /I
   B: It's waiting for a mouse. (The cat is staring at the hole in the wall because it's
   waiting for a mouse.)