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Look at the examples in the following table. They are taken from the
dialogue in Audio 4.1.
Table 4.1 Yes or no questions for past incidents
No ‘Yes/No’ Questions with ‘Did’ ‘Yes/No’ Questions with ‘was/ were’
1. Did you swim in the river? Was the river this dirty back then?
2. Did people throw their trash into Were there many children in the
this river? river?
In these examples, the auxiliary verb In these examples, the past
‘did’ is used because there are the main tense ‘to be’ ‘was’ and ‘were’
verbs ‘swim’ and ‘throw’. function as the main verb. ‘The
river’ represents ‘It’, and ‘many
children’ represents ‘They’
b. Find the other ‘Yes/No’ questions from the second part of the
dialogue. Group the questions in the following table.
No ‘Yes/No’ Questions with ‘Did’ ‘Yes/No’ Questions with ‘was/ were’
1.
2.
3.
4.
Worksheet 4.6
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