Word Order

How to make sentences in English?

There are three types of sentences in English:

1. Affirmative (+)

2. Negative (-)

3. Questions (?) Yes/No Questions Wh-Questions

Affirmative (+)

The word order in the Affirmatives is very

strict. You may not change word order in the

sentence, because people can misunderstand you.

Even if the sentence is long, every word has its own place.

1. Affirmative (+)

1. 2.

Subject Verb

Who?/What? What does/do he/she/it/they/we/you do?

We eat.

2. Affirmative (+)

1. 2. 3.

Subject Verb Object

Who?What do we do? What?

We eat crisps.

Adverbs

Sometimes the Adverbs of Time take the first place in the sentence

The Adverbs of Place are never the first. The Order of Adverbs :

Manner - Place -Time

3. Affirmative (+)

0. 1. 2. 3. 4.

Time Subject Verb Object Time

When?Who?

What do we do? What? When?

On Mondays

we eat crispsduring the

break.

4. Affirmative (+)

0. 1. 2. 3. 5. 6.

Time Subject Verb Object Place Time

When?Who?/ What do

we do?What? Where? When?

On Mondays

we eat crispsin the school

canteen

during the

break.

5. Affirmative (+)

0. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Time Subject Verb Object Manner Place Time

When? Who? What do we do?

What? How? Where? When?

On Mondays

we eat crisps greedily in the school

canteen

during the

break.

Negative (-)

You make negatives with the auxiliary verb and the particle “not” before the verb.

We eat crisps. We do not eat crisps. The other words do not change their place.

1. Negative (-)

1. 2. 3. 4. 3.

SubjectAuxiliary

verb

Particle Verb Object

Who? Invisible Not What do we do? What?

We do not eat crisps.

2. Negative (-)

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Subject Auxiliary Verb

Particle Verb Object Manner Place Time

Who? Invisible Not What do

we do?

What? How? Where? When?

We do not eat crisps greedily in the school canteen

during breaks.

Questions (?)

We make questions by adding auxiliary verb (Yes/No) or the question word and the auxiliary verb (Wh-) at the beginning of the sentence.

Other words do not change their place, but some words are omitted.

1.Questions (Yes/No) (?)

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Auxilliary Verb

Subject Verb Object Manner Place Time

Invisible Who? What do we do?

What? How? Where? When?

Do we eat crisps greedily in the school

canteen

during break?

2. Questions (W-) (?)

1. 2. 3 4. 5. 6. 7.

Question Word

Auxiliary Verb

Subject Verb Manner Place Time

Invisible Who? What do we do?

How? Where? When?

What do we eat greedily in the school

canteen

during breaks?

Make your own sentences:

(+) works/ every day/ Mary/at home/ hard

(-) Europeans/not/understand/African culture/do

(?) why/go/you/in Norway/every winter/do/skiing

(+) I/my friend/love/computer games/and

(-) do/cats/like/not/dogs

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