Change the following statements into questions and negatives.

1. I have a lot of work to do.

2. Plenty of people want to buy cars.

An indirect question is not a question at all. In an indirect question, we do not put an auxiliary verb before the subject, and we do not use a question mark.

When a question word is the object of a preposition, the preposition usually comes at the end of the clause, especially in an informal style.

Read the following sentence.

You will do it, won’t you?

Has, have and had can be used both as auxiliaries and as principal verbs. When they are used as auxiliaries they help in the formation of present perfect and past perfect tenses.

The following rules apply to almost all written questions.

Auxiliary verb before subject

In a question the auxiliary verb normally comes before the subject.

During conversation it is common to make a statement and then ask for confirmation. For example, in the sentence ‘It is very hot, isn’t it?’ we make a statement and then ask for confirmation. Here the later part (isn’t it?) is called a question tag.