Grammar: B1 - ✨ Grammar Essentials: 🧩 Parts of Speech & 🏗️ Sentence Structure - Lesson 13: Question Forms - Review and Expansion across tenses (auxiliary verbs)
Grammar: Forming Questions B1 Lesson 18: A Review of Inversion What you will learn: By the end of this lesson, you will be able to confidently form Yes/No questions in a variety of tenses by using inversion with a helping verb.
The Golden Rule of Questions Good news! Almost all Yes/No questions in English follow one simple pattern. This pattern is called inversion , which means we swap the position of the subject and the first helping verb (auxiliary verb). Rule 1: If there IS a helping verb... Simply swap the subject and the helping verb. Statement: He is sleeping. (Subject: He, Helping Verb: is) Question: Is he sleeping? Rule 2: If there is NO helping verb... You must ADD a helping verb (do, does, did). Statement: She works . (No helping verb) Question: Does she work ? The Grammar Rule 📖 Question Forms Across Tenses Tense / Verb Type Statement Question (with Inversion) Present Simple ('be') She is a doctor. Is she a doctor? Present Simple (Action) He works here. Does he work here? Past Simple (&…