curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/zh-a1-learn-understanding-questions-and-answers/69144b26c2b2f681776fad57.md
Wang Hua is asking another question. Pay attention to how she forms the question.
Listen to the audio and answer the question below.
What does Wang Hua ask about?
The other person's nationality.
She says her own nationality, but her question is about another aspect.
Liu Ming's age.
There's no mention of age in this dialogue.
Liu Ming's job.
Liu Ming's name.
She doesn't ask for a name.
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吗 (ma) is a question particle. It's put at the end of a declarative sentence to turn it into a question, just like adding a question mark (?) to a sentence to make it a question.
Wang Hua is forming a question by adding 吗 (ma) at the end of a declarative sentence 你是设计师 (nǐ shì shè jì shī). This indicates that she is asking for confirmation about Liu Ming's profession as a designer.
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