Question Frame
Are we asking or stating?
Meaning
A frame that turns a thought into a request for information, confirmation, choice, identity, reason, place, time, or manner.
How to spot it
Find the element that makes the sentence a question: word order, question word, particle, intonation.
Examples
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↗
Language View
In your language
English questions often require auxiliary inversion, do-support, wh-word position, or rising intonation.
Do you like coffee?
do you = question frame
In learning language
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.