Question

A) Highlight in red color only those sentences that have a question word as the subject.
1) What is Standard English?
2) In which Latin American country do people speak Portuguese?
3) Which languages relate to German?
4) Which countries speak English as their first language?
5) Which language does the word barbecue come from?
6) What does polyglot mean?
7) Who do you think, speaks Cantonese, as their first language?

Change the direct questions to indirect questions.
1) Where’s the post office?
Can you tell me______where the post office is____?

2) Which foot ball team do you support?
Could you tell me ___________________________?

3) What type of car do you have?
Could you tell me ___________________________?

4) Is there a bank near here?
Do you know if ____________________________?

5) How often does he arrive late for work?
I wonder __________________________________?

6) When did you move here?
Can you tell _______________________________?

7) When was the building constructed?
I wonder _________________________________?

8) What time is it?
Could you tell me____________________________?

E) From the following group of statements, color in green only those that are correctly written.


1) My sister has blue eyes, isn’t she?
2) We always argue, don’t we?
3) It was hot yesterday, wasn’t it?
4) Lizet didn’t organize the party, didn’t she?
5) We all have different opinions about this matter, isn’t it?
6) He told us about it last week, didn’t he?
7) I’m always losing things, amn’t I?
8) Daniel isn’t an intelligent boy, isn’t he?
9) She doesn’t explain very well, does she?
10) This is difficult, isn’t it?

Answer 1

A) Highlight in red color only those sentences that have a question word as the subject. 

1) What is Standard English?

2) In which Latin American country do people speak Portuguese?

3) Which languages relate to German?

4) Which countries speak English as their first language?

5) Which language does the word barbecue come from?

6) What does polyglot mean?

7) Who do you think, speaks Cantonese, as their first language?

Change the direct questions to indirect questions. 

1) Where’s the post office?

Can you tell me______where the post office is____?

2) Which foot ball team do you support?
Could you tell me _____which football team you support____?

3) What type of car do you have?
Could you tell me ___what type of car you have____?

4) Is there a bank near here?
Do you know if ___there is a bank near here___?

5) How often does he arrive late for work?
I wonder ____how often he arrives late for work______?

6) When did you move here?
Can you tell ____when you moved here____?

7) When was the building constructed?
I wonder ____when the building was constructed_____?

8) What time is it?
Could you tell me__what time it is__?

E) From the following group of statements, color in green only those that are correctly written. 

1) My sister has blue eyes, isn’t she?

2) We always argue, don’t we?

3) It was hot yesterday, wasn’t it?

4) Lizet didn’t organize the party, didn’t she?

5) We all have different opinions about this matter, isn’t it?

6) He told us about it last week, didn’t he?

7) I’m always losing things, amn’t I?

8) Daniel isn’t an intelligent boy, isn’t he? 

9) She doesn’t explain very well, does she? 

10) This is difficult, isn’t it?