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WH Questions – and statement and Time expressions

WH questions are very common in English. The lesson below shows you how to use them correctly. You can find the exercises at the bottom of the page.

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WH questions ask for information. Here are the six questions and their answers:

Question	Answer	Example
What	Thing	What is your name?
When	Time	When is the party?
Who	Person	Who is your brother?
Where	Place	Where is the bank?
Why	Reason	Why do you like pizza?
How	Directions	How do you spell your name?

WH Questions Structure

WH questions in the simple present use “do” or “be”. Take a look at the structure for each of these verbs.

Do

WH   +   DO/DOES   +   SUBJECT    +   VERB

Take a look at some examples:

• Where do you work?
• When does she wake up?
• Who is your brother?

Be

WH   +   BE    +    SUBJECT

Here are the examples:

• Where are you from?
• Who is that man?
• When is your class?

Exercise 1: WH Questions Test

Exercise 2: WH Questions Test 2

Exercise 3: Present Simple Wh Questions



TIME EXPRESSIONS 
Prepositions in expression of time

1. The preposition inmonths

• in July, in the month of July
  in September, in the month of September

• • years

    in 1996, in the year 1996
    in 2012, in the year 2012

  • seasons

    in summer
    in the summer, in the summer of '69

  • parts of the day

    in the morning
    in the afternoon
    in the evening

  • point of time in the future

    in a minute
    in a fortnight 
    in three weeks' time, in three weeks (only when not ambiguous)

• duration (within a maximum period)

  in a minute
  in two weeks

2. The preposition at

• parts of the day

  at (the crack of) dawn
  at night

• time of day

  at 6 (o'clock), at 7 p.m., at 18 hrs (24-hour clock: airports, the military)
  at midday , at noon 
  at midnight

• • festive seasons

    at Christmas
    at Easter

  • points in time

    at the weekend  (on the weekend, on weekends )
    at the time, at the same time

  3. The preposition on

• days

  on Sunday, on Sundays (Sunday: no preposition  journalese)
  on Good Friday
  on my birthday

• dates

  on the 25(th) of December*
  on December (the) 25(th)*
• 
  

• a particular part of a day

  on the morning of September (the) 11(th)* 

4. Other prepositions

• after (following)

  after school

• as of (starting), more formal than from

  as of tomorrow

• before (preceding a point in time, future or past)

  before Christmas

• between ... and (limits of a period)

  between Monday and Friday

• by (before, at the latest)

  by Thursday

• during (in the course of a period)

  during the day
  during the holidays  (during the vacation )

• for (duration, future or past)

  for up to 10 weeks
  for five minutes
  negated:
  not for* three weeks  (not ... in three weeks ) * increasingly being replaced by in
  after a superlative:
  the ...est for* two years  (the ...est in three weeks ) * increasingly being replaced by in

• from (starting, as of)

  from today
  from July

• past (time of the day)

• 23 minutes past 6 (6:23) ( also: after)

• since (from a point of time in the past, still continuing now)

  since Monday

• till/until (up to a point in time in the future)

  till tomorrow
  until tomorrow

• to (time of the day)

  23 minutes to 6 (5:37) ( also: before)

• within (in less time than)

  within a day

5. No preposition

• next Monday
• last Tuesday
• Saturday week

Exercise 1:  Preposition of time (time expressions)

Exercise 2: Time expressions

Possessive adjetives and short answers with be

What are possessive adjectives?

Possessive adjectives - my, your, his, her, its, our, your, their - modify the noun following it in order to show possession.
Examples:

• I'll get my bag.
• Is this your luggage?

Possessive adjectives are often confused with possessive pronouns.
Examples:

• Your bike is blue. (your is an adjective which modifies bike)
• Mine is yellow. (mine is a pronoun which functions as the subject of the verb is)

Examples

Subject Pronouns	I	you	he	she	it	we	you	they
Possessive Adjectives	my	your	his	her	its	our	your	their

Examples:

• Why didn't you clean your room?
  (your modifies the noun room)
• Mary doesn't like her dress.
  (her modifies the noun dress)
• The chameleon can change its color.
  (its modifies the noun color)

  His hair is short                                                   Her hair is long.  

Things to remember:

1. Possessive adjectives are different from possessive pronouns.

• This is your (possessive adjective) book and this is mine (possessive pronoun).

2. its, their are possessive adjectives.

• Its color is beautiful.
• Their car is in their garage.

3. it's, they're and there are not possessive adjectives — its is a contraction of it is or it has; they're is a contraction of they are; there is an adverb of place.

• It's not my book = It is not my book.
• My house is big. It's got five bedrooms = It has got five bedrooms.
• Nancy and Alan are from New York. They're my friends = They are my friends.
• Please, put the chair there. (adverb)

Exercise 1: Possessive adjectives 

Exercise 2: Possessive adjectives 

Yes/No questions and short answers with the verb be

Yes/No questions – be (am, are, is)

Subject and verb change their position in statement and question.

• Sentence: You are from Germany.
• Question: Are you from Germany?

We always use the short answer, not only Yes or No.

NOTE:

If the answer is Yes, we always use the long form. → Example: Yes, I am.

If the answer is No, we either use the long or the contracted form (short form). → Example: No, I am not → No, I'm not.

Exercise 1:  The verb to be - yes / no questions
Exercise 2:  Short answers with am, are, is