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How do you start a subject question sentence?

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Use a question word at the beginning of the sentence and keep the word order as if it was an affirmative sentence. Let's take the sentence "Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet," for instance. If you're not sure who the author is and you'd like to find out, you'd change the sentence to "Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?" You'd keep the structure of the sentence affirmative.

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What is an example of an indirect question?

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Some examples of indirect questions are "Do you know if...?" "Could you tell me if...?" and "Would you mind me asking...?" These types of question starters help you keep the question in a more polite and formal form while also keeping the word order the same as an affirmative sentence.

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What is an example of an open question?

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An example of an open question could be "Where do you live in Paris?" The formula of an open question is a question word + a supplementary verb (in this case, "to be") + a subject + the main verb + the complimentary part of the sentence (if required).

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Write a question for "We are on a family occasion."

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In this case, you could just swap the first two words around to make the question "Are we on a family occasion?"

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