1. He translated four articles yesterday.
General: Did he translate four articles yesterday?
Special: When did he translate four articles?
Alternative: Did he translate four or three articles yesterday?
Disjunctive: He translated four articles yesterday, didn't he?
Wh-question: Who translated four articles yesterday?
2. Yesterday I arrived at the railway station at 11 o'clock sharp.
General: Did I arrive at the railway station at 11 o'clock sharp yesterday?
Special: Where did I arrive at 11 o'clock sharp yesterday?
Alternative: Did I arrive at the railway station at about 11 o'clock or at 11 o'clock sharp yesterday?
Disjunctive: Yesterday I arrived at the railway station at 11 o'clock sharp, didn't I?
Wh-question: Who arrived at the railway station at 11 o'clock sharp yesterday?
3. We visited a large supermarket in the town centre on Saturday.
General: Did we visit a large supermarket in the town centre on Saturday?
Special: What did we visit in the town centre on Saturday?
Alternative: Did we visit a large market or a large supermarket in the town centre on Saturday?
Disjunctive: We visited a large supermarket in the town centre on Saturday, didn't we?
Wh-question: Who visited a large supermarket in the town centre on Saturday?
4. Northern Ireland borders on the Irish Republic in the south.
General: Does Nothern Ireland border on the Irish Republic in the south?
Special: Where does Nothern Ireland border on the Irish Republic?
Alternative: Does Northern Ireland border on the Irish republic in the south or in the east?
Disjunctive: Nothern Ireland borders on the Irish Republic in the south, doesn't it?
Wh-question: What country borders on the Irish Republic in the south?
After each term in school we had our holidays. It's fun to have holidays, you can do whatever you like, you don't have to get up too early, do your homework or think of troubles which occur very often at school.
Most of all I liked summer holidays, they were the longest ones, though, when winter was snowy and and frosty, I enjoyed my winter holidays skating and skiing, sledging and making a snowman or having a fight with snowballs.
I'd like to tell you about my summer holidays I spent in Sochi. It was just three years ago. My parents and me were sitting in the living-room discussing our plans for the summer holidays. My father suggested that we should go to Sochi. On hearing that I jumped up with joy and said it was a wonderful idea. My mother wasn't against the idea either. So one summer morning we started for our journey to Sochi.
First, we travelled to Odessa by plane and from there we got to Sochi by boat. We stayed in Odessa for three days, our relatives live there and they gave us board and lodging. So we had an excellent opportunity to go round the city, to see beautiful monuments to the famous people who had lived in Odessa, museums and the Odessa Opera House.
We enjoyed our trip from Odessa to Sochi. The Black Sea was calm. We sat on deck in the lounge chairs and looked at the sea. I like Sochi very much, we bathed and went boating and swimming, lay in the sun on the beach. In the evenings we went for a walk or dropped in at a cafe to have ice-cream or juice.
My father showed us the famous Botanical Gardens, we went for hikes in the mountains, we saw the magnificent Augura Waterfalls. The sea was nice and warm. The weather was fine. When it was time to go home, we were sorry to leave the marvellous town of Sochi.