{"id":1978,"date":"2017-03-07T15:13:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T15:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2017-03-07T15:13:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T15:13:14","slug":"short-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/short-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Short questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes we answer a statement by asking for more information. Questions of this kind have a very simple structure.<\/p>\n<p>Study the following examples.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Rani is quitting her job.\u2019 \u2018Why?\u2019 (More natural than \u2018Why is Rani quitting her job?\u2019)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Aruna is getting married.\u2019 \u2018When?\u2019(More natural than \u2018When is Aruna getting married?\u2019)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">\u2018The head teacher wants to see you.\u2019 \u2018What for?\u2019(More natural than \u2018For what does the head teacher want to see me?\u2019)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u2018The trains aren\u2019t running?\u2019 \u2018Why not?\u2019(More natural than \u2018Why aren\u2019t the trains running?\u2019)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Negative statements<\/h2>\n<p>We can convert a negative statement into a question in two different ways.<\/p>\n<p>Compare the example given below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ramya does not like to watch TV.<\/li>\n<li>We can convert this into a question in two different ways.<\/li>\n<li>Does Ramya not like to watch TV? (This is somewhat formal.)<\/li>\n<li>Doesn\u2019t Ramya like to watch TV? (This is less formal.)<\/li>\n<li>She didn\u2019t get the first prize.<\/li>\n<li>Didn\u2019t she get the first prize?<\/li>\n<li>Did she not get the first prize?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes we answer a statement by asking for more information. Questions of this kind have a very simple structure. Study the following examples. \u2018Rani is quitting her job.\u2019 \u2018Why?\u2019 (More natural than \u2018Why is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[415],"class_list":["post-1978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-short-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1979,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions\/1979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}