Revise and Check: Questions, Tenses, and Relative Clauses

• Let us check how to ask questions correctly, when to use the present simple or continuous, and how relative clauses connect ideas. These patterns help you talk about your daily life and neighbors.
• Grammar Area
• Structure / Example
• Questions
• Do you live in Boston? / Where is the new neighbor?
• Present Simple
• She always helps people in London.
• Present Continuous
• Look! He is knocking on the door in Chicago.
• Relative Clauses
• This is the man who lives upstairs in New York.
• Remember
• Use auxiliary verbs (do, does, is, are) to make questions.
• Use present simple for habits, facts, and routines.
• Use present continuous for actions happening right now.
• Use 'who' for people, 'which' or 'that' for things, and 'where' for places.
• Examples
• What are you doing in the kitchen?
• The woman who lives next door is very polite.
• Do they usually borrow tools from friends?
• Common mistakes
• Where lives your new neighbor?
• Where does your new neighbor live?
• The man which lives upstairs is friendly.
• The man who lives upstairs is friendly.

Complete the sentences

• Where ___ (you / live) ____ in Chicago?
• Listen! Someone ___ (knock) ____ on the door.
• This is the apartment block ___ (where) ____ my parents stay in Boston.
• She always ___ (borrow) ____ sugar from her neighbor.
• Why ___ (they / make) ____ so much noise tonight?
• Is this the man ___ (who) ____ lent you the key?

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