Question Frame
Are we asking or stating?
المعنى
A frame that turns a thought into a request for information, confirmation, choice, identity, reason, place, time, or manner.
كيفية التعرّف عليه
Find the element that makes the sentence a question: word order, question word, particle, intonation.
أمثلة
who|what|where|when|why|how|do
where are you|do you know|is it ready
Where do you live?
Visual guide
QUESTION FRAME signal + thought + ? where + you live + ? = answer wanted Not a plain statement Ask: asking or stating?
Question signals can vary: Word: where are you? Order: is it ready? Do: do you know? Particle: ready Q? Tone: ready↗
منظور اللغة
في اللغة الأم
Yes/no questions often use هل or أ, and information questions use question words with mostly stable word order.
هل تفهمُ الدرس؟
Do you understand the lesson?
في لغة التعلم
English questions often require auxiliary inversion, do-support, wh-word position, or rising intonation.
Do you like coffee?
do you = question frame
Learners may form questions with statement word order or forget do/does/did.
Same block, different coding
Both languages use this block strongly, but they signal it differently. Focus on form changes, not only meaning.