Jerez Hernandez Luis Enrique

Wh questions

We use the Wh questions to elicit information. The various wh

question words have their different functions.

What/ Which
What is a pronoun in English that means "qué". It is used in
questions (as an interrogative pronoun). For example: What's
your name?
Which. Asking for information specifying one or more people
or things from a definite set. For example: Which of all the
homeworks?

Where/ When
Where is a word that we use to point to a specific place or
situation. For example: Where is your father?
When asks about time. For example: When is your birthday?

Who/Whose/Whom
Who is often used to talk about those people who perform an
action. In other words, who is most likely the subject of the
sentence. For example: Who is the other?
Whose is used as an interrogative pronoun to ask to whom a
certain possession belongs. On the other hand, it is used to replace
a possessive pronoun in a sentence. For example: Whose book is
this?
Whom is a relative pronoun that is used in adjectival subordinate
clauses when the antecedent that we want to define is about a
person and is
preceded by a preposition. For example: With whom am I
speaking?

Why
why refers to the content information highlighted in the
answer in the clause beginning with because. The clause,
which expresses a reason, is not a subject or an object of the
main clause. For example: Why are you crying?

How
How is used to ask about the condition or quality of
something. You can also used to ask for quantity: How
much...?
(for uncountables) and How many...? (for countables).
For example: How old are you?