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Slow Slowly Careful Carefully Angry Angrily Excellently Excellent Easily Easy Good Well Awfully Awful Terrible
Slow Slowly Careful Carefully Angry Angrily Excellently Excellent Easily Easy Good Well Awfully Awful Terrible
’Yes / no’ questions with tenses that use ‘do / does / did’:
Sometimes you want to make an indirect question using the present simple of any verb
except ‘be’ or the past simple of any verb except ‘be’. These tense make direct questions by
using ‘do / does / did’. When we want to make indirect ‘yes / no’ questions using these
tenses, we need ‘if’ and we don’t need ‘do / does / did’.
’Wh’ Questions
In the same way as with reported ‘wh’ questions, we use the question word and the word
order of a normal positive sentence to make indirect ‘wh’ questions. We don’t need to use
inversion. Again, we also don’t usually need to ‘backshift’ (change the tense of the verb) as
we do with reported questions.
To change a direct question to an indirect question for tenses that make questions using
inversion, you just add ‘if’ and change the word order back to a normal positive sentence.
Sometimes you want to make an indirect ‘wh’ question using the present simple of any verb
except ‘be’ or the past simple of any verb except ‘be’. Usually these tenses make questions
by using ‘do / does / did’. However, when we want to make indirect ‘wh’ questions using
these tenses, we don’t need ‘do / does / did’. Instead, we use a question word and then
normal positive sentence word order.
Common Problems
It can be difficult to remember to put the verb after the subject, especially when the indirect
question is in the present simple tense of ‘be’. For example, we need to say: