Questions, tag questions and coordination

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UNIVERSIDADE ESTÁCIO DE SÁ

Alunos:

(Aluno – AURELIO DA SILVEIRA GOMES SOBRINHO)
Matrícula: 2006.02.10.499 – 1

(Aluno - ANTONIO CARLOS SOARES DE CARVALHO)
Matrícula: 2006.01.03.474 –3

TRABALHO DE CAMPO

(Livro – A Communicative Grammar of English)

Autor: Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik (2002), Trird Edition

Assuntos: Questions, Tag Questions and Coordination

(Curso – Letras/Port/Ingl)

LINGUA INGLESA V

Profª. Juliana da Fonseca Hermes Velloso

Rio de Janeiro

Campus Méier - 1

2008.1

AURELIO DA SILVEIRA GOMES SOBRINHO
(matrícula Nr 2006.02.10.499 – 1)

ANTONIO CARLOS SOARES DE CARVALHO (matrícula Nr 2006.01.03.474 –3)

(Livro – A Communicative Grammar of English)

Autor: Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik (2002), Trird Edition

Assuntos: Questions, Tag Questions and Coordination

Trabalho para a disciplina Língua Inglesa V, apresentado na Universidade Estácio de Sá, Campus Méier, como requisito parcial para obtenção do grau de AV2 e obtenção de Horas Campo.

Rio de Janeiro

2008.1

Questions

Interrogative pronouns are used in asking questions. The pronouns who, what and which are used as interrogative pronouns.

Examples .: Who ate the cake? What did he say? Which is your sister?

Direct questions

Interrogative pronouns can be placed at the beginning of a sentence in order to ask a question. Such questions can be referred to as direct questions.

In a direct question, when the interrogative pronoun is the subject of a verb, the verb follows the subject. In the following examples, the verbs are underlined, and the subjects of the verbs are printed in bold type.

Examples.:What has happened? Who has been gotten here?

In these examples, what is the subject of the verb has happened, and who is the subject of the verb has been gotten (to arrive). The presence of the interrogative pronoun transforms