A. QUESTION SENTENCES
• IIn this type of sentence, the auxiliary is placed before the subject
• The auxiliary shows the form of tense
• If the sentence doesn’t have a verb, the auxiliary used is either “is”, “am”, or
“are”
• If the sentence has a verb, the auxiliary used can be “do”, “does”, “did”,
“will”, “shall”, “can”, “may”, “must”
1. Yes/No Question
Auxiliary + Subject Pronoun + Verb (simple) + Complement
2. Can you give me some examples?
3. Shall I give you all the books?
4. May I borrow your beaker glass?
5. Must I throw these away?
6. Am I your supervisor?
7. Are you my new assistance?
8. Is he our technician?
9. Did you fnd any difculties during the extraction?
10. Do you like to solve this sample in organic solution?
2. Information Question
Who/what + Verb + Complement + Modifer
Whom/What + Auxiliary + Subject + Verb + Modifer
1. Who made the reactor in this research?
2. Who was in charge to make the reactor in this research?
3. What makes you excited today?
4. What do you do to extract the volatile component in the pepper?
5. Whom will you go travelling with?
6. How do you extract the volatile component in the cloves?
7. Why did you extract the volatile component in the cinnamon?
8. Where did you fnd the procedures for this extraction?
3. Embedded Question
Subject + Verb (phrase) + Question Word + Subject + Verb
Auxiliary + Subject + Verb + Question word + Subject + Verb
An embedded question is not a question which needs an answer.
1. I do not know yet where I am going to stay.
2. She did not say when she will come back.
3. We haven’t been told when we can use the instrument.
4. You must understand why I am angry
5. Does he know where the instruments are?
6. Shall I tell what the problem is?
7. Did the police tell you who the suspect was?
Main clause + comma + Tag question
4. Tag Question
Tag Question :
1. Use the same auxiliary verb as in the main clause
1. This is your sample, isn’t it?
2. These are your samples, aren’t they?
3. You have already known where to go, haven’t you?
4. She did not know what to do, did she?
5. He hasn’t thrown away his used solvent, has he?
B. AFFIRMATIVE SENTENCES
• An afrmative sentence declare something true or factual
• If one subject does one thing and another subject does the same, use the
word “so” or “too”
• Look at our example on how to write a sentence using conjunction and
I
a lecturer
upset
his wife
Subject To be Adj/noun and Subject to be too
I
a lecturer
upset
his wife
Subject Aux verb and so to be Subject
her husband
they
his friends
Subject Aux verb and Subject aux too
She
her son
they
his friends
has
Aisyah
We
I
cooks dinner
ate our dinner
work at night
and
her husband
they
my classmates
Subject verb and Subject Do/does/did too
She
We
Imam
cooks dinner
ate our dinner
works at night
and
and
and
her husband
they
his friends
C. NEGATION
I
We
Usman
am not
were not
is not
a lecturer
upset
his wife
Subject To be+not Adj/n/adv and Subject to be either
I
a lecturer
upset
his wife
Subject Aux+ not
verb and neither to be Subject
Aisyah
her husband
they
his friends
Subject aux+not verb and Subject aux+not either
She
We
Imam
hasn’t
won’t
must not
gone
her son
they
his friends
hasn’t
Aisyah
We
I
doesn’t cook dinner
her husband
they
my classmates
Subject verb and Subject Don’t/doesn’t/ didn’t
either
She
We
Imam
doesn’t cook dinner
didn’t eat our dinner
doesn’t work at night
and
and
and
her husband
they
his friends
Subject verb any Complement (noun)
Aisyah
We
I
doesn’t have
don’t have
don’t have
any
Subject verb no Complement (noun)
thing (nothing)
where (nowhere)
