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Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. ======Echo questions====== =====Introduction===== <html><p><a class="various" href="https://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/563_aa0f9249bbbcb43a533b1a0b67539e39.jpg" rel="image_show"><img width="331" height="362" id="563" style="width: 134px; height: 121px;" alt="Proposal, propose, engage, ring, marry fiancé" src="https://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/563_aa0f9249bbbcb43a533b1a0b67539e39.jpg"></a> <b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>"I asked Joyce to marry me."</span></b> <span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;'><strong>"<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">You asked her to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">marry</i> you?</span>!"</strong></span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;'></span> <br></p></html> =====Definition===== <html> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style=";"><span style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>These are responses, in the form of questions, to being asked or told something. </span></b></p> <br></html> =====Introduction===== <html> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style=";"><span style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>There are two main forms:</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style=";"><span style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'> </span></b></p> <table style="border: currentColor; border-image: none; border-collapse: collapse; mso-border-alt: solid #5B9BD5 1.0pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes;"> <td width="411" valign="top" style="background: rgb(91, 155, 213); border-width: 1pt 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: solid none none solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 246.4pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; ;'>Repetition </span></b></p> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" style="background: rgb(91, 155, 213); border-width: 1pt 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: solid solid none none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 215.7pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; ;'>Subject + verb + question word </span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1; ;"> <td width="411" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 246.4pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>A: "I just heard that Sam got the manager's job."</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>B: "<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">He got the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">manager's</i> job</span>?"</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'> </span></b></p> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 215.7pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>A: "Carol's gone to Paris to see a client."</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>B: "<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">She's gone <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">where</i></span>?"</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>[alternative to "Where has she gone?"]</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'> </span></b></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style=";"><span style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'> </span></b></p> <br></html> =====Uses===== <html> <table style="border: currentColor; border-image: none; border-collapse: collapse; mso-border-alt: solid #5B9BD5 1.0pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes;"> <td width="369" valign="top" style="background: rgb(91, 155, 213); border-width: 1pt 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: solid none none solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 221.25pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; ;'>Use</span></b></p> </td> <td width="400" valign="top" style="background: rgb(91, 155, 213); border-width: 1pt 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: solid solid none none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 240pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; ;'>Examples</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"> <td width="369" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 221.25pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>To show surprise, shock or disbelief</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>Note that </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>we stress the question word and often a key word when repeating a phrase.</span></b></p> </td> <td width="400" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 240pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>"Did you know it's raining?" </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>"<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">It's <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">raining</i></span>?! Not again!"</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>"Your visitors will be here in 10 minutes."</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; ;'>"<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">They'll be here <i>when</i></span>?! But I'm not ready yet."</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>"Did you know Simon's back from his trip?"</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>"<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">He's <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">back</i></span>? I thought he was going for longer."</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>"Jamie went skiing and broke an arm and a leg."</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>"<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">He broke an arm <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and</i> a leg</span>?!"</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'> </span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2; ;"> <td width="369" valign="top" style="border-width: 0px 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: none none solid solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 221.25pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>To ask for confirmation if we didn't hear or understand something</span></b></p> </td> <td width="400" valign="top" style="border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 240pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>"This is Nicky's pen. Can you give it back to her?"</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>"<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">It's <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">whose</i></span>?"</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>"Myles has finished the report. It's taken ages."</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>"<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">He's <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">finished</i> it</span>?"</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'> </span></b></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table><p> <br></p></html> =====Examples===== <html><p><a class="various" href="https://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/1382_d992a6020fd5ed8c4c442a0b103a55f5.png" rel="image_show"><img width="277" height="281" id="1382" style="width: 99px; height: 105px;" alt="mariage marriage wedding bride" src="https://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/1382_d992a6020fd5ed8c4c442a0b103a55f5.png"></a> </p><p><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>"I saw Hannah and she's getting married next week." </span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>"<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">Anna's</span></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"> getting married</span>?" </span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;'>"No, not Anna - Hannah!"</span></b></p><p><a class="various" href="https://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/1827_06bc534027e7895653334a988b5177f0.jpg" rel="image_show"><img width="215" height="280" id="1827" style="width: 100px; height: 117px;" alt="file folder office colleagues dossier " src="https://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/1827_06bc534027e7895653334a988b5177f0.jpg"></a> <b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>"I gave the file to Keith." </span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>"<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">You gave it to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">who</i></span>?"</span></b></p><p> <a class="various" href="https://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/1713_521917e1731fc254556ffd7356f7d272.jpg" rel="image_show"><img width="480" height="319" id="1713" style="width: 116px; height: 101px;" alt="family daughters famille enfants children parents" src="https://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/1713_521917e1731fc254556ffd7356f7d272.jpg"></a> <b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>"They've already got four children and now they're expecting twins." </span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>"<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">Twins</span></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">?</span>!"</span></b></p><p> <a class="various" href="https://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/243_e8dd5cd246f4f8e8a6ac55184c5755c6.jpg" rel="image_show"><img id="243" alt="camel" src="https://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/243_e8dd5cd246f4f8e8a6ac55184c5755c6.jpg"></a> <b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'></span></b></p><p><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ;'>"We visited a remote village in the desert to see an ancient monument. The only way to get there was on camels."</span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;'>"<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">You got there <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">how</i>?</span>!"</span></b></p><p><br></p></html> [[en:grammar:home|{{ :file_-_back_3_.png?150 }}]]