 Ladies and gentlemen, I'm doing great! Thanks for asking. When did you start learning English? How many English books have you read so far? Who taught you English when you were at primary school? Do you know how people avoid making mistakes in English? In this lesson, I'm going to teach you how to make questions easily. So stay tuned! I've noticed that a lot of students have problems making questions in English. This lesson, I want to dedicate to making questions and make it as easy as possible for you. So when we ask for when or the object of a sentence, we use this kind of formula. So we have the WH question word, which is when, how, where, what, etc. Then we need the auxiliary. An auxiliary could be do, does, did, be, have, will, can, could, etc. Then the subject, that it could be a pronoun or a noun. Then we have the verb. It could be a present participle or a past participle or the base of the verb. Then we need the object, maybe, sometimes. If we ask for when, we need the object. If we ask for the object, obviously we don't write the object in the question. So the object sometimes and then the time expressions or the time expression if we ask for the object. So the time expression could be yesterday, today, last week, last month, etc. So I'm going to give you an example of this. So when did you start learning English? When did you start learning English? Look at the auxiliary. The auxiliary is the blue color. Did you start? The start is the base of the verb. So it's the verb. Learning. Start learning. English, which is the object. Here we asked for when. So that's why we need the object. Now in this case we are asking for the object. So what is she doing now? In this case we have the verb to be. So is as an auxiliary. She is the object, is a pronoun. Then doing is the verb, the main verb, so is the present participle. And then now, which is the time expression at the end. So what is she doing now? Then we can have a yes or no question. So we don't need the WH question word at the beginning. So what we need is the auxiliary. So the auxiliary in this case is to. Do you is the subject. Do you like eating is the verb. Do you like eating pizza. So eating belongs to like. What do you like eating? Do you like eating pizza? Sorry. So pizza is the object in this case. So this is for or when we ask for the object or when. What happens if we have or if we ask for the subject of the sentence. So the formula changes here. We need who or what at the beginning. Then we need the auxiliary sometimes and I will explain why sometimes. Then we need the verb and in this case we need to conjugate the verb. Then we need the object and then we need the time expression sometimes. So we do not use do does or did in this type of questions when we ask for a subject. Let me explain by giving an example. For example, who taught you English when you were in primary school was the question. Who taught you English in this case we have who is the WH question word. Then we have taught which is the past participle of the verb to teach and is a past simple question. Who taught you you is the object English is the object. So who taught you English Tina is the answer who Tina is the subject taught me English when I was in primary school. So as you can see we do not use the auxiliary did in a subject question. Let me give you another example with the auxiliary who is going to cook tomorrow. In this case we ask for the person for the subject but we need the auxiliary to be who is going to cook tomorrow. So for example John or Peter or he is going to cook tomorrow. As you can see we need the auxiliary so in this case we need the auxiliary because it's not do does or did. Now I'm going to give you another example of other types of questions. Now if you want to ask for more information about the object of the statement we use how much and how many. Plus now if you want to review these two you may click here. Now I'm going to tell you more or less what they are used for how much is used for uncountable nouns. What do I mean? I mean singular nouns for example water or flower or anything that you cannot count or coffee. They are just uncountable nouns. Meet how many how many is with countable nouns for example apples oranges anything that is plural that it can become plural. So let me give you an example how much water do you drink a day how much water do you drink a day. Obviously I'm asking for more information about the object so water would be the object here. So how much water do you drink a day I drink three liters of water. So for example with how many how many English books in this in this case we have English books. So is accountable noun how many English books have you read so far. I have read 50 English books so far. One last thing that I want to mention about questions indirect questions these are more formal and thus more polite. So we use could you tell me do you know do you have any idea would it be possible is there any chance. Remember though that this is a question but the next part of the statement is a positive one. Let's look at my examples do you know how people avoid making mistakes in English. So you can see do you know is the question how people avoid making mistakes in English is a positive statement. We don't make a question here many many students make a question even here no is incorrect. Let's look at the second example could you tell me when the train arrives. Okay could you tell me is the question and the positive statement when the train arrives. Let's look at a conditional sentence or question would it be possible would it be possible if I called you tomorrow. This is the second conditional in this case is a question would it be possible if I called you tomorrow. So is not a question here is a positive statement the only question is would it be possible. So now let's recap in this lesson we looked at how to make questions in an easy way. There are object, subject and indirect type of questions. Object questions ask for the object of the statement. Subject questions ask for the subject of the statement obviously. And indirect questions are a more polite way to put a question. I've also mentioned how much and how many plus a noun just to ask for more information about the object. I hope you enjoyed the lesson if you have comments requests or if you want to type your own question under this video you may do so. Don't forget to share it and if you haven't subscribed to my channel please do so so that the following week you get another new lesson. Have a great day and I see you next week take care bye bye.