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Just like in English, we can form questions in two ways:

1. Closed questions

This is an enquiry about the presence/occurrence of an event or act and can only be answered by "yes" or "no": Did you do the dishes? Has he graduated? Can we come in? This type of question always starts with a verb (in English, usually 'to do')

2. Open questions

An open question starts with an interrogative pronoun: who, what, where, how, etc. These questions cannot be answered with a simple "yes" or "no" but require at least a simple phrase. The possible answers are infinite, hence the term 'open' question.

On the next page, we will first look at the closed questions.


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Last updated on May 17, 2007 ::