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• Depending on what sort of information we want, we use one of the following question words:
Who wrote that book? (person)
What is your name? (thing)
Which book is yours? (thing)
When did you arrive? (time)
Where do you live? (place)
Why are you doing that? (reason)
How can I find out? (manner)
• What and which can often be used with the same meaning. When the person asking the question has a restricted number of choices in mind, s/he will use which. When s/he is not thinking of a restricted number of
choices, what is used:
Which main course (from the menu) are you going to have?
Which department (of this company) do you work in?
What name is on the envelope?
What number shall I call?
• Whom is a more formal way of saying who, and is not common when speaking. If we choose to put our question word after a preposition, then we must use whom:
With whom did you go?
However, this is very unusual, and we would normally avoid this by putting the preposition at the end of the phrase:
Who did you go with?
• Apart from these single words, we combine two or more words to find out other kinds of information:
How old are you?
What time is it?
How many children have you got?
How long did it take?
1. WH-question
Where ask about places. Where is he? At home.
When ask about times and dates. When will you phone? At 6 o'clock
Why ask about a reason. Why are they leaving? They are tired.
How ask in what way. How will she get here? By taxi.
Who ask about people Who are you going to visit? My sister.
What ask about things What's your father's job?
(many possible answers). He's a dentist.
ask about things
Which Which finger did you break?
(small number of possible
My ring finger.
answers).
2. Word order
Most wh-questions begin with a question word + an auxiliary verb + the subject
Question
Auxiliary Subject Verb
word
What is Brian doing?
Where have you put the book?
When can we travel safely?
How does the radio work?
KINDS OF ADVERBS
INTERROGATIVE ADVERBS
These are:
Examples:
• Why are you so late?
• Where is my passport?
2. with adjectives:
How tall are you?
How old is your house?