Transforming Sentences into Interrogative Form

The video tutorial explains how to convert declarative sentences into interrogative sentences. It covers three main guidelines: using linking verbs, action words, and verb phrases. Each guideline is illustrated with examples, demonstrating how to rearrange sentence components to form questions. The tutorial concludes with a summary of the guidelines.

What is the main purpose of a declarative sentence?

• To show excitement

• To express a command

• To declare or state facts

• To ask a question

Which punctuation mark typically ends an interrogative sentence?

• Exclamation mark

• Period

• Comma

• Question mark

Which of the following sentences is in the interrogative form?

• Teaching she is?

• She teaches.

• She is a teacher.

• Is she a teacher?

What should you do with the linking verb in a declarative sentence to make it interrogative?

• Move it to the beginning

• Move it to the end

• Change it to a helping verb

• Remove it

In the sentence 'Vicki is an honor student', what is the linking verb?

• is

• Vicki

• an

• student

How would you transform 'My cousins were here yesterday' into an interrogative sentence?

• Yesterday were my cousins here?

• Were my cousins here yesterday?

• My cousins were here yesterday?

• Here were my cousins yesterday?

Which of the following is NOT a linking verb?

• Have

• Are

• Am

• Is

How would you transform 'I am going to paint this' into an interrogative sentence?

• Am going I to paint this?

• Going am I to paint this?

• Am I going to paint this?

• I am going to paint this?

What is the first step in transforming a declarative sentence with an action verb into an interrogative sentence?

• Add a question mark

• Start with a helping verb

• Move the action verb to the end

• Change the action verb to past tense

Which helping verb would you use for a present tense plural action verb?

• Does

• Has

• Did

• Do