Hello everyone. Do you know that the word ask is the most often used word in a sentence?
Yes we use this word practically every single time. Do you know a lot of my students make
very common errors while using this word. Today I'm going to show you how to place the
word ask correctly in a sentence, because believe me if you know how to use this word
correctly, a lot of your grammatical mistakes can be easily avoided. So stay tuned with
me this is Ceema and today I'm going to show you the different tips that you can use in
order to place ask, in a sentence correctly.
Alright then guys, the first tip to use the word ask in a sentence correctly is using
the word ask and then you can use anyone or someone, in the sense you can use the word
his or her or the name of a person just anybody, okay followed by the word for, followed by
an object.Okay now what does that really mean? I will show you through a sentence. Okay,
so let's look at this sentence. It says .. ask her for a piece of paper, okay. Now, when
you are using the word ask in this sentence, okay the word ask is of course a verb, it
means that you are asking someone, requesting someone, right? It's gonna be followed with
a her or a his or whoever you are asking, okay which is gonna be followed by the word
for and the object that you are asking for, okay. Now mind you, this rule is not only
applicable when you are talking about a physical object, it could also be for something else
that you can ask for. So say for example you say, "ask mom for advice." Advice is not a
physical object, right but you can use the word ask in a sentence because you are asking
someone which is your mom in this case, followed by the word, for and the object that is the
advice you were asking for, advice though it is not a physical object in this example.
That is the first way way you are going to use the word ask and apply it correctly in
this kind of a sentence, okay.
What's the second way? The second way to use this word is, when you are going to talk about
something. You know we like to have conversations, we love to gossip, right? So, the second way
of using this word is when you use the word ask, followed by someone. It could be the
name of a person, it could be his, her, your, anything followed by the word about and then
you are gonna talk about any topic, anything at all. Let's look at a sentence to explain
this and understand this more clearly, okay. So, I can say, "I want to ask Jordan about
his trip to Europe." Now, we are going to talk about something, we wanna gossip about
something right, have a conversation about something. So we will use the verb ask, after
which you are going to talk about someone as I said it could be a name, it could be
a his or a her. So, ask Jordan about well what do you want to talk about? In this case,
it is about his trip to Europe or you could say ask your mom about her shopping spree.
It could be anything, okay. So, in this sentence, when you are going to use ask and if you are
going to talk about something, it's always going to be in this kind of a format, okay?
The third way of using this very often used word in a sentence is by placing the word
ask and then you use a his or a her or anything followed by a WH question. Okay, well what
is a WH question? For those who don't know you can watch a lesson I have made on WH questions,
which includes questions like how, why, when, where, who. These are a few WH questions,
which may be, forgot which. So let's look at a sentence that will help us understand
this much better. "Ask Tim why he is so sad?" So, when you use a WH question, you do not
need to use an about or a for after using the person that you are asking it to. So,
we are asking someone, who is Tim in this case, we don't need to ask him for or about
because now we are going to use a WH question right after we use his name. So we say, "ask
Tim why he is so sad? or Ask Ravi, why he is not participating or ask you know Sharon,
what is she eating. Right so this is another way to use the word ask, right.
The next way to use this very often used word is by placing the ask and then following it
with someone, like we have already seen, followed by the if. But that is only going to be used
when you are going to give a yes or a no as the response. Okay, so this question that
you are going to ask is particularly going to be for a yes or a no question. Can we see
an example, "ask your mother, if she is dropping you to the airport?"Now this is a yes or a
no question because the only response you can get to this question is either a yes or
a no. So, you use the word ask which is the word we are talking about and the someone,
it could be anybody in this case, it is your mother. That is followed by an if and whatever
you are going to say at the end of the sentence is going to be a response which either gives
you a yes or a no. So, these questions are mostly going to be yes or no questions. So
you have got to make sure you use this word in the right way in this format, okay.
And, the final way of using the word ask in a sentence is when you use the word ask followed
by someone which could be anyone. You could use the word to or not to followed by another
verb. Let's look at a sentence to explain this. Okay, "ask her to be quiet." Okay, ask
is followed by someone which in this case is her, it could be your sister, your mother,
anybody to, what are you going to ask her to do, to do something. So, being quiet is
a verb. So therefore you will use the ask followed by someone, the person you are asking
a question to, followed by the verb, to and another verb depending on what you want them
to do. If you don't want someone to do something, you will say, "ask her not to be quiet." So
you can use the word ask in a sentence, either with a to or a not to depending on whether
you want them to do something or whether you don't want them to do something.
Okay, well this brings me to the end of this lesson on using the word or placing the word
ask correctly in a sentence. I hope you found it very informative and I hope you are going
to use it correctly the next time you write that English assignment that you are given
by your teacher. Well, you have a very good day, this is me saying take care.