Answering Questions
Four
How many steps are there to answering questions?
Look for a Question Word
Step 2 to Answering Questions
Second Person Questions get First Person Answers
Step 3 to Answering Questions
Third Person Questions get Third Person Answers
Step 4 to Answering Questions
The verb in the answer.
The verb used in the question is usually...
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To Answer Questions
An Accent
What do all Spanish question words have in common?
An Interrogative
What is another name for a question word?
Respond with "yes" or "no."
If you don't see an interrogative in a question...
Add new information to your answer.
If you see an interrogative in a question...
¿Cómo se llama usted?
Rewrite the second-person question into a third-person question using the second-person formal "you": ¿Cómo te llamas?
¿Cuántos años tiene él?
Rewrite the second-person question into a third-person question using the word for "he": ¿Cuántos años tienes?
¿De dónde es?
Rewrite the second-person question into a third-person question using the word for "it": ¿De dónde eres?
¿Cómo está ella?
Rewrite the second-person question into a third-person question using the word for "she": ¿Cómo estás?
Find the Verb
Step 1 to Answering Questions
