question forms
We make questions by:
1: moving an auxiliary to the front of the clause:
| Everybody is watching | >> | Is everybody watching? |
| They had worked hard | >> | Had they worked hard? |
| He's finished work | >> | Has he finished work? |
| Everybody had been working hard | >> | Had everybody been working hard? |
| He has been singing | >> | Has he been singing? |
| English is spoken all over the world | >> | Is English spoken all over the world? |
| The windows have been cleaned | >> | Have the windows been cleaned? |
2: … or by moving a modal to the front of the clause:
| They will come | >> | Will they come? |
| He might come | >> | Might he come? |
| They will have arrived by now | >> | Will they have arrived by now? |
| She would have been listening | >> | Would she have been listening? |
| The work will be finished soon | >> | Will the work be finished soon? |
| They might have been invited to the party | >> | Might they have been invited to the party? |
3: The present simple and the past simple have no auxiliary. We make questions by adding the auxillary do/does for the present simple or did for the past simple:
| They live here | >> | Do they live here? |
| John lives here | >> | Does John live here? |
| Everybody laughed | >> | Did everybody laugh? |
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hello
I would like to know when to use "has" and "have" . when we are talking about a country. eg: 1. India have won the match. 2. India has won the match. Which statement is correct? Please illustrate with some more examples.
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Hello Shahla Aminaie!
Countries are singular, so we usually use has. This is true when we are talking about general facts, as in Britian has a population of 60 million.
In your example, though, in sentence 1, India means the Indian players or the Indian team. In this situation, we often use the plural form, because we often use the plural with team names:
India are through to the final.
You can read a little more about it on our page about problems with nouns, but both 1 and 2 are OK.
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Jeremy Bee
The LearnEnglish Team
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