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An interrogative sentence is a sentence in a
question form. It requires a question mark. Is this my book? Did you
come yesterday? If the finite verb is an auxiliary, invert the subject
and that auxiliary, or drag the auxiliary to the beginning of the
sentence. She is writing a letter. (Affirmative) Is she writing a
letter? (Interrogative)a
Amie will talk to him.
(Affirmative) Will Amie talk to him? (Interrogative) a
If the
finite verb is not an auxiliary, we have to provide an auxiliary from the
verb DO. So do, does, or did becomes our new auxiliary verb. But they must
appear in the same tense. She wrote a letter. She did write a
letter. Did she write a letter? a
She comes here every
day. She does come here every day. Does she come here every day?
a
She came here last week. She did come here last week Did
she come here last week? a He drives a car. He drove a car. Does he
drive a car?a Did he drive a car? Change to interrogative
form: 1.Our friends at Koribundu are here. 2. My brother at Fourah
Bay College knows the correct answer. 3. Twenty people gathered here
yesterday. 4. The man in the blue shirt was nervous. 5. My favourite
musician was S.E. Rogers. 6. He went to Mambolo to buy
fish.
NEGATIVE The negative is even simpler to build. Remember
that the negative signal is not , or n't placed immediately after the
auxiliary verb. But the n't is completely welded to the auxiliary verb,
with no space allowed. She is writing a letter. She is not writing a
letter. She isn't writing a letter. If the finite verb is not an
auxiliary, a member of the verb DO (e.g. do, does, did) may be used as
auxiliary, and the not or n't is then applied as we've done above. She
likes the village. She does not like the village. She doesn't like
the village. I know the way. I don't know the way He wrote the
letter. He didn't write the letter. He comes here every day He
doesn't come here every day.
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