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  • 28/06/2025
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00:00Hello and welcome to today's Grammar Game Show. I'm your host, Will.
00:10Ah, make something up yourself.
00:13And of course, let's not forget Leslie, our all-knowing voice in the sky.
00:18Hello, everyone.
00:21Tonight we're going to ask you three questions about...
00:23Questions.
00:24Questions. Those investigative interrogatives that satisfy the curious and kill the cat.
00:34Okay, now let's meet our contestants.
00:38Hello, all. My name's Liz.
00:41And contestant number two.
00:44Hello, everyone. I'm Clarence.
00:46Nice to see you again, Liz. This is your fifth...
00:49Hold it right there, Will. This is a sting.
00:52Agent Clarence Articulates from the Bureau of Invisible Know-It-All Grammarians,
00:58held invisibly somewhere in a box in the sky.
01:02Not boing-I-see-a-bits.
01:05Yes, well, we are working on the acronym.
01:07Now, I've heard some rumors about you and your Grammar Game Show.
01:12Have you got an unlicensed Leslie?
01:15Rumors? How?
01:17We've had an informant working on the inside for the last few weeks.
01:21Liz! You snake in the grass! How could you?
01:27Sorry, Will. They give better gifts.
01:31Leslie, license, please. We have some questions for you.
01:35Questions, eh? I can't imagine why.
01:39Leslie's very well cared for. He's happy here. Aren't you, Leslie?
01:44Well, what I'd really appreciate is...
01:47We must get that cable fixed.
01:50License, please.
01:52Quid pro quo, Agent Clarence.
01:54We are in the middle of a quiz game.
01:57You play my game, and I'll play yours.
02:01Quid. Pro. Quo.
02:04Well, it looks like I have no choice but to proceed.
02:11Well, okay. Let's get going, and don't forget, you can play along at home, too.
02:16Our first round is a reverse round.
02:19I'm going to give you the answer, and you'll tell me the question.
02:23The category is standard object question grammar.
02:27Ready?
02:29Answer one.
02:30Put the auxiliary verb in front of the subject.
02:34What is the question?
02:37How do we form most object questions?
02:41Correct.
02:43Answer two.
02:45Yes and no, and question word.
02:47What's the question?
02:49What are the two types of object questions?
02:55Correct.
02:56Answer three.
02:58What, who, where, when, why, how, which?
03:04What's the question?
03:06What kinds of words start a question word question?
03:11Correct.
03:13Answer four.
03:14They use an auxiliary verb only, but short answers are possible.
03:20What's the question?
03:23What makes yes-no questions different from question-word questions?
03:28Correct.
03:30Leslie.
03:30Well done.
03:33The most common type of question is the object question.
03:36In this type, the normal word order of a sentence is changed.
03:43The auxiliary verb is moved in front of the subject.
03:47They come in two types.
03:50Yes-no questions, such as, am I about to be set free?
03:56And question word questions.
03:58For example, what will happen to the show if I leave?
04:03You win this round.
04:05Well done, Agent Clarence and Coe.
04:12You may ask one question.
04:15What are you feeding him, you monster?
04:17Oh, nothing but the best, I assure you.
04:20He's fibbing.
04:21It's nothing but bread and water.
04:24Bread and water?
04:25That's les lunacy.
04:28Oh, sorry.
04:29We must get on.
04:30Round two is about subject questions.
04:32Question one.
04:34What is the difference between subject and object questions?
04:39Replace the noun or pronoun with a question word and use statement word order.
04:46Leslie.
04:47Strange answer, Liz.
04:49But that is one way to make a subject question from a sentence.
04:53However, it doesn't answer well, so no points.
04:59Subject questions are used when the question word represents the subject noun of the answer.
05:05For example, what happened?
05:08Nothing happened.
05:10With these questions, we do not invert the auxiliary verb and subject like we do with object questions.
05:17We use the verb like we would in a normal sentence.
05:20And if the verb is changed to show a tense, that change remains.
05:26Excellent.
05:27Let's have an example.
05:29Look at these sentences and tell me which one is wrong.
05:33Who broke the window?
05:35What has happened to the house?
05:38What will become of us?
05:40Who does know?
05:45It's she because it has an auxiliary verb.
05:48Incorrect.
05:49That's a future simple subject question and perfectly right.
05:57D is wrong because an auxiliary verb is not needed.
06:02Leslie.
06:03Sorry, Agent Clarence.
06:05It's not always wrong.
06:07To add emphasis to subject questions, we stress the auxiliary.
06:12With certain tenses, such as the present simple, we can reintroduce the auxiliary verb so that it can be stressed.
06:22Sorry, Agent Clarence.
06:23No right answer.
06:25No question for you.
06:31On to our last round.
06:33And this is a true or false round.
06:36The category is reported questions.
06:38Here we go.
06:41This type of question does not switch the auxiliary verb and subject.
06:48True.
06:50Correct.
06:51Now try this.
06:53Reported yes-no questions are introduced using if or whether.
07:01True.
07:03Correct.
07:05Reported questions are written as sentences with no question mark.
07:11Reported questions are often introduced with the verb ask.
07:21For example, he asked me.
07:26True.
07:27Correct.
07:29Leslie.
07:30Reported questions do not switch the auxiliary verb and subject like object questions do.
07:37They are written as sentences and may be introduced by the verb ask, such as they asked me.
07:44Finally, if the reported question has a yes or no answer, we need to use if or whether in its construction.
07:53And that brings us to the verb ask.
07:54And that brings us to the verb ask.
07:55And that brings us to the end of today's grammar game show.
07:58I've played your games long enough.
08:03Now, Leslie, license please.
08:05If you show me quickly, I might be more Les-lenient.
08:09Of course.
08:10But first, don't you want to ask Leslie what he wants to do?
08:16Leslie?
08:17If I left, who would answer the questions?
08:21Who would keep Will company?
08:23He's mean, but he's my friend.
08:25Oh, but he's horribly trapped.
08:28A trapped Leslie is just a way of the world.
08:30But without a Leslie license, life would be chaos.
08:34Now, show me the Leslie license or I have to les-litigate.
08:38Oh, just this way, Agent Clarence.
08:40It's down here, in the basement.
08:45And Liz, birds of a feather flock together.
08:51See where your curiosity has got you now, Agent Clarence.
08:56Release the cats.
08:58It looks like we'll need two more contestants.
09:01Say goodbye, Leslie.
09:03Donadago, ha-i, Leslie.
09:05See you next time, old friend.
09:10See you next time, old friend.