Posts belonging to Category 'question'

question : how

1. Comment allez vous? – How are you?2. Comment j’allume ce truc? – How do I switch this thing on?3. Combien ça coute? – How much does it cost?4. Combien de personnes sont là? – How many people are here?5. Quelle age avez-vous? – How old are you?6. Depuis combien de temps travailles-tu ici? – [...]

Asking for prices and quantities

Notes pour francophones: Paul utilise les mots ‘count noun’ et ‘noncount noun’. count noun : nom dénombrable noncount noun : nom indénombrable Selon le contexte, certains mots peuvent être et ‘count’ et ‘uncount’. Des boissons, par exemple. Tout comme en français, on peut dire: some beer : de la bière a beer : une bière [...]

Questions – direct and indirect

A direct question is like this: where is the station? or What time is it? Indirect questions are more polite, they start with things like, ‘do you know if’ ‘savez-vous si’ or ‘could you tell me’ pourriez-vous me dire Pay attention to word order, you can’t use the same structure as a direct question: Could [...]

use of auxiliaries in questions

When the question is the subject, there is no auxiliary verb: Who went to the cinema? NOT who did go to the cinema? when the question is not the subject, we need to use an auxiliary: Who did you go to the cinema with? NOT who you went with? – the subject is ‘you’.