Write a short note on Question Formation in English, giving examples where necessary. 

 Supply question tags to the following statements: 

 Anju and Rajni are good friends.

You won’t forget to give my message.

 Stop making that noise.

iHe is an athlete. v Rajeev and his friends hid my slippers.

 Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions: 

Mother Teresa was born ………27th August, 1910……..Yugoslavia ...............the age of twelve she wanted to become a nun. When she was nineteen she arrived ……India. Some months later, she went… ......... Patna to do a course in nursing.

Say whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F). Correct the false statements briefly.

 All native speakers of English are mutually intelligible to each other.

Overt linguistic devices are not necessary to understand the meaning of a text.

English in India replaced Persian and other languages from the areas of education, administration, trade and business.

Like RP, Indian English has 11 pure vowels and 6 glides.

Accent and dialect are terms that can be synonymously used.

There are about 2 billion non-native speakers of English spread over different parts of the world.

Skimming and scanning help organize writing efficiently.

English utterances normally carried new information in the predicate.

Semantics is an independent branch within language study, which has one

Textual context or co-text is essential for meaningful discourse.

 Form questions about those parts of the statements which are in CAPITAL letters. 

NEW DELHI is the capital of India.

He goes for a walk EARLY IN THE MORNING.

 John went for a film WITH HIS COUSIN.

 He usually goes to the KALKAJI post-office.

 I would like some TOAST AND BUTTER for breakfast.

Fill in the blanks with a/an or the:

This house is very nice. Has it got .............. garden?

It’s a beautiful day. Let’s sit in .............. garden.

 There isn’t… ....... airport near where I live.

..................... nearest airport is 70 kms away.

 I’m going away for ........... week in September.

 All native speakers of English are mutually intelligible to each other.

 Overt linguistic devices are not necessary to understand the meaning of a text.

English in India replaced Persian and other languages from the areas of education, administration, trade and business.

Like RP, Indian English has 11 pure vowels and 6 glides.

Accent and dialect are terms that can be synonymously used.

There are about 2 billion non-native speakers of English spread over different parts of the world.

Skimming and scanning help organize writing efficiently.

English utterances normally carried new information in the predicate.

Semantics is an independent branch within language study, which has one

Textual context or co-text is essential for meaningful discourse.