Formation of Yes-No Questions

In English，a Yes-No question is known as a general question.The English syntax stipulates that for a typical Yes-No question，the auxiliary verb/modal comes first，the subject comes second，the bare infinitive(main verb)third and then the object plus other information.And，of course，there are also rules on subject-verb agreement and on tenses.The word order of Yes-No questions in English requires an inversion of the positioning of the subject and the verb and other necessary adjustments.To this end，the Chinese word order in Yes-No questions appears almost like a no-brainer as it is free from constraints from subject-verb inversion and subject-verb number agreement.We advise our students to start from the base model，e.g.the equivalent statement(or the full answer sentence to a Yes-No question).The process is so simple，students only need to add a ma(Chinese question word)to the end of the statement to form a completely new Yes-No question.