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Yes/No Questions (Interrogative Sentence)
Yes/No questions: Interrogative sentences are sentences that are used to ask questions. One common type of interrogative sentence is the yes/no question. Yes-or-no questions are designed to elicit a response of either yes or no. Intonation in Yes/No questions: Yes-or-no questions often end with a rising pitch. This means that […]
There is/There are
The construction there is /there are is known as an existential construction in English grammar. It is used to indicate the existence of something or someone. The there is/there are has a different structure compared to the typical subject-verb-object (SVO) sentence structure. In there is/there are sentences, the word there serves as a placeholder or dummy subject, and the real subject comes after the verb.