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  2. Wh-movement - Wikipedia

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    The following examples of sentence pairs illustrate wh-movement in main clauses in English: each (a) example has the canonical word order of a declarative sentence in English, while each (b) sentence has undergone wh-movement, whereby the wh-word has been fronted in order to form a direct question.

  3. Subject–auxiliary inversion - Wikipedia

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    A typical example of subject–auxiliary inversion is: a. Sam has read the paper. – Statement b. Has Sam read the paper? – Yes–no question formed using inversion. Here the subject is Sam, and the verb has is an auxiliary. In the question, these two elements change places (invert).

  4. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    To form a question from a sentence which does not have such an auxiliary or copula present, the auxiliary verb do (does, did) needs to be inserted, along with inversion of the word order, to form a question (see do-support). For example: She can dance. → Can she dance? (inversion of subject she and auxiliary can)

  5. Subject (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    The object, in contrast, appears lower in the second tree, where it is a dependent of the non-finite verb. The subject remains a dependent finite verb when subject-auxiliary inversion occurs: Subjects 3. The prominence of the subject is consistently reflected in its position in the tree as an immediate dependent of the root word, the finite verb.

  6. Interrogative word - Wikipedia

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    An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, which, when, where, who, whom, whose, why, whether and how. They are sometimes called wh-words , because in English most of them start with wh- (compare Five Ws ).

  7. Do-support - Wikipedia

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    Do-support (sometimes referred to as do-insertion or periphrastic do), in English grammar, is the use of the auxiliary verb do (or one of its inflected forms e.g. does), to form negated clauses and constructions which require subject–auxiliary inversion, such as questions.

  8. How to Write a Real Love Poem (Without Clichés or Bad ... - AOL

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    The best love poems offer respite and revivify; they remind me that I, too, love being alive. Soon the lilacs will bloom, but so briefly. Even more reason to seek them out and breathe in deep.

  9. Inversion (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Contrary to the subject-auxiliary inversion, the verb in cases of subject–verb inversion in English is not required to be an auxiliary verb; it is, rather, a full verb or a form of the copula be. If the sentence has an auxiliary verb, the subject is placed after the auxiliary and the main verb. For example: a. A unicorn will come into the ...