[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"grammar-exercise-01a0e1ab-e16b-79c5-ab8d-02f7bc3c9da4":3,"grammar-exercise-lesson-019b8488-503a-75f8-a47d-37747230fb3d":151},{"id":4,"grammarPage":5,"title":6,"instructions":7,"seoTitle":6,"seoDescription":8,"displayOrder":9,"type":10,"questions":11,"ogImageUrl":150},"01a0e1ab-e16b-79c5-ab8d-02f7bc3c9da4","\u002Fapi\u002Fgrammar_pages\u002F019b8488-503a-75f8-a47d-37747230fb3d","Past WH Questions: Forms and Follow-Ups","Tap each tile, then tap the column that describes its question or follow-up detail.","Sort past WH questions and follow-up details. Practise subject questions, embedded word order, final prepositions, reasons, results and events in order.",6,"word_sort",[12,35,58,81,104,127],{"id":13,"sentenceTemplate":14,"displayOrder":15,"explanation":16,"blanks":17,"payload":18},"01a0e1ab-e16b-7b79-ab8d-02f7bc7374b2","Sort these ordinary, non-emphatic questions by whether the question phrase asks about the subject doing the action or the object receiving it.",0,"A subject question asks who or what performed the action and normally uses a past verb without did. An object question names the subject after did and uses a base verb. This also applies to quantity phrases: how many asks about countable things, while how much asks about an uncountable amount.",[],{"items":19,"categories":34},[20,23,25,27,30,32],{"text":21,"category":22},"Who invited the neighbours?","Subject question (no did)",{"text":24,"category":22},"How many guests arrived?",{"text":26,"category":22},"How much water leaked?",{"text":28,"category":29},"Who did the neighbours invite?","Object question (did)",{"text":31,"category":29},"How many chairs did you bring?",{"text":33,"category":29},"How much bread did you eat?",[22,29],{"id":36,"sentenceTemplate":37,"displayOrder":38,"explanation":39,"blanks":40,"payload":41},"01a0e1ab-e16b-7c19-ab8d-02f7bc9549a0","The answer was: We had to take a longer route. Sort each possible follow-up by whether it explains this choice or gives a result of it.",1,"A reason explains why an action was necessary or chosen. A result describes what happened because of that action. Because and so can mark these links, but separate sentences can express the same relationships without a linker.",[],{"items":42,"categories":57},[43,46,48,50,53,55],{"text":44,"category":45},"The bridge on the short route was shut.","Reason",{"text":47,"category":45},"Our usual road was flooded.",{"text":49,"category":45},"A fallen tree blocked our usual road.",{"text":51,"category":52},"The extra distance made us late.","Result",{"text":54,"category":52},"The longer drive used more fuel.",{"text":56,"category":52},"The journey took an extra hour.",[45,52],{"id":59,"sentenceTemplate":60,"displayOrder":61,"explanation":62,"blanks":63,"payload":64},"01a0e1ab-e16b-7c99-ab8d-02f7bd01e0fd","Check the main verb after did or did not in each past WH-question. Sort the questions by whether that verb has the correct form.",2,"Did and did not already mark the past, so the main verb must be in its base form. This rule applies to both affirmative and negative questions. A past form or an -s form after did needs correcting.",[],{"items":65,"categories":80},[66,69,71,73,76,78],{"text":67,"category":68},"Where did you buy your shoes?","Correct verb form",{"text":70,"category":68},"Why did she not answer?",{"text":72,"category":68},"What did they choose?",{"text":74,"category":75},"Where did you bought your coat?","Verb form needs correcting",{"text":77,"category":75},"Why did he not replied?",{"text":79,"category":75},"What did she wants?",[68,75],{"id":82,"sentenceTemplate":83,"displayOrder":84,"explanation":85,"blanks":86,"payload":87},"01a0e1ab-e16b-7d01-ab8d-02f7bd37c39b","Sort these sentences by whether they tell you how events finished or explicitly return to an earlier part of the account.",3,"A final outcome tells us how a situation ended after earlier events or difficulties. A return to a point directs the listener back to an earlier topic. In the end and anyway can help signal these functions, but the meaning of the whole sentence decides its role.",[],{"items":88,"categories":103},[89,92,94,96,99,101],{"text":90,"category":91},"We chose the blue sofa in the end.","Final outcome",{"text":93,"category":91},"We finally gave up and went home.",{"text":95,"category":91},"Our search ended without success.",{"text":97,"category":98},"Anyway, let me return to our arrival.","Returning to an earlier point",{"text":100,"category":98},"Let me return to our search for a room.",{"text":102,"category":98},"I was telling you how the trip began.",[91,98],{"id":105,"sentenceTemplate":106,"displayOrder":107,"explanation":108,"blanks":109,"payload":110},"01a0e1ab-e16b-7d5d-ab8d-02f7bd8ae58e","Sort these details by the relationship they express: an unexpected contrast or an explicit order of events.",4,"A contrast connects facts that seem surprising together, even without but. A sequence explicitly tells us which action came earlier or later. Words such as before and afterwards can establish that order as well as then and after that.",[],{"items":111,"categories":126},[112,115,117,119,122,124],{"text":113,"category":114},"It was cheap, but it worked perfectly.","Contrast",{"text":116,"category":114},"I was tired. I could not sleep.",{"text":118,"category":114},"It was expensive. It was worth it.",{"text":120,"category":121},"We ate, then we washed the dishes.","Events in order",{"text":123,"category":121},"We paid before we left.",{"text":125,"category":121},"We ate. We washed up afterwards.",[114,121],{"id":128,"sentenceTemplate":129,"displayOrder":130,"explanation":131,"blanks":132,"payload":133},"01a0e1ab-e16b-7dbd-ab8d-02f7be290b33","Check the word order and any preposition in these past questions. Sort them into correct questions and questions that need correcting.",5,"An embedded question after Do you know uses statement order, including subject before was or were. In conversational questions, a required preposition can stay at the end, but it must not be omitted or repeated after a fronted preposition.",[],{"items":134,"categories":149},[135,138,140,142,145,147],{"text":136,"category":137},"Do you know where he went?","Correct question",{"text":139,"category":137},"Who did you share a room with?",{"text":141,"category":137},"Which chair did she sit on?",{"text":143,"category":144},"Do you know why was he angry?","Question needs correcting",{"text":146,"category":144},"Who did you share a room?",{"text":148,"category":144},"With whom did you travel with?",[137,144],"\u002Fuploads\u002Fimages\u002Fgpimg_1cf3b230-73c4-4664-9d1d-0549b85e474f_hero.webp?v=1790492533",{"title":152,"slug":153,"language":154,"level":155},"WH Questions (In the Past) and Follow-up Structure","wh-questions-in-the-past-and-follow-up-structure","en","B1"]