Question Frame
Are we asking or stating?
Signification
A frame that turns a thought into a request for information, confirmation, choice, identity, reason, place, time, or manner.
Comment le repérer
Find the element that makes the sentence a question: word order, question word, particle, intonation.
Exemples
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↗
Vue par langue
Dans votre langue
Questions can use intonation, est-ce que, inversion, or question words.
Où habites-tu ?
Where live-you?
Dans la langue d’apprentissage
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?
Learners may rely only on intonation or place question words unnaturally.
Same block, different coding
Both languages use this block strongly, but they signal it differently. Focus on form changes, not only meaning.