QUESTION WORDS (WH questions)

Dear learners:
Today we are going to talk about different topics. The first of them is question words.
In English, Questions Words are used to ask certain kinds of questions. They are usually
referred to as WH questions because they include the letters WH, for example what,
where, who, when, why, etc. These are really useful.
Below, you will see the Question Words along with its translations and some examples to
each one:

Información sobre la Who won?

Who ¿Quién…?
identidad de alguien | ¿Quién gano?

Información sobre la
What are you
naturaleza o
What? ¿Qué? ¿Cuál? doing? | ¿Qué
identidad de una
estás haciendo?
cosa

When are you

En qué momento o
When? ¿Cuándo? coming? | ¿Cuándo
período temporal
vienes?

Where do you live?

Where? ¿Dónde…? En qué lugar
| ¿Dónde vives?
De qué manera, How are you?
How? ¿Cómo…?
estado de ánimo | ¿Cómo estás?

Why did you come?

Why? ¿Por qué? Causa o motivo
| ¿Porqué viniste?

Whose is this
A qué persona
Whose? ¿De quién? book? | ¿De quién
pertenece una cosa
es este libro?
Para preguntar
Which song is your
acerca de un
favourite? | ¿Cuál
Which? ¿Cuál? número limitado de
es tu estación
posibilidades entre
preferida?
las cuales escoger
Based on the information provided, solve the following exercises:
1) Relate the question to the corresponding answer.

2) Choose the correct WH word to complete the sentences.

• . ______________ is her name? Her Name is Rosana.

• . ______________ is my bag? I don’t know.

• ______________are they happy? Because they are on vacation.

• _______________is their wedding? On December 1st.

• _______________is the problem? Her mom is very sick.

• _______________is your favorite actor? Roberto Morales.

• _______________ apartment do you like the most? (the old one or the
new one). The old one!
• _______________is she late? Because of traffic.

• _______________ is the meeting? In my office.

• ________________is the teacher from? He is from France.

 OBJECT PRONOUNS

The seven basic pronouns have a different form when they are used as object
pronouns. The object pronoun receives the action of the verb.

Example:

I call her every day.

In this case, I is the subject who performs the action and her is the object that is
receiving the action.
The list of object pronouns is shown below:
I ME
YOU YOU
HE HIM
SHE HER
IT IT
WE US
THEY THEM

Examples:

• I love my grandma. She loves me too!

• You don’t like it.
• Where are the keys? I can’t find them.
• Karol is very special. I miss her!
• The project is very interesting. The teachers want us to write about it.
• Tom is in the hospital. Call him and ask him how he is.

POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES
Possessive adjectives are used to express ownership. A list of possessive
adjectives is shown below.
Examples:

• My name is Kelly.
• I like their proposal about the project.
• George is in his apartment.
• Why does Lorena leave her bag in the office?
• This is a good school. Our students are good people.

Based on the information provided, solve the following exercises:

3) Organize the words to make correct sentences.

• name / is / my / Richard /

____________________

• s / her / profession / what /

____________________

• is / veterinarian / a / he /

__________________
• apartment / old / the / is /

____________________

• husband / an / my / engineer / is /

__________________________
4) Relate the object pronoun to the corresponding subject pronoun.
5) Complete the text with the corresponding word

Robert is (1)_______ dentist. (2) _______ is married and (3) _________ wife is (4)
_______ judge. They live in (5) _______ big house. (6) _______ have two children
and (7) ____ pet. Robert works in (8) ____ hospital and Karla in (9) ____ office.
(10) ______ children go to (11)______ private school.