WH-

QUESTIONS
Wh- questions allow a
speaker to find out more
information about topics.
They are as follows:

When? time
Where? place
Who? person
Why? reason
How? manner
What? object, idea, or action
.
Other words can also be used to
inquire about specific information:

Which (one)? choice of alternatives

Whose? possession
Whom? person (objective formal)
How much? price, amount (non-count)
How many? quantity (count)
How long? duration
How often? frequency
How far? distance
What kind of? description
The grammar used with
wh-questions depends
on whether the topic
asked about is a
sentence's subject or
predicate.
For the subject pattern,
simply replace the person
or thing being asked about
with the appropriate wh-
word:

Someone has my baseball. Who has my baseball?

Something is bothering you. What is bothering you?
For the predicate pattern, wh-question
formation depends on whether an
auxiliary (helping) verb in the original
sentence is:
I can do it. Who can do it?
They are leaving. Who are leaving?
I have eaten my lunch. Who has eaten his/her lunch.
I should have finished my homework Who has finished his/her homework?
 To m a k e a q u e s t i o n u s i n g t h e p r e d i c a t e
pattern, first form a yes- or no-

question by inverting the subject and

first auxiliary verb, then add the

appropriate wh-word to the beginning

of the sentence:

He is someone. Who is he?

The meeting was sometime. When was the meeting?
If there is no auxiliary (verb) and the verb is
not “be”, add “do” to the beginning of the
sentence, then add the appropriate wh-
question word. Be sure to transfer the tense
and number from the main verb to the word
“do”:

You want something. What do you want?

You went somewhere. (past tense) Where did you go?
She likes something. (3rd person, -s) What does she like?
S E AT W O R K On a half sheet of paper, write a sentence then transform it
into a question for each WH- question.

Example: My mother baked my sister a cake.

For whom did my mother baked a cake?

Which (one)? choice of alternatives

Whose? possession
Whom? person (objective formal)
How much? price, amount (non-count)
When? time
How many? quantity (count)
Where? place
How long? duration
Who? person
How often? frequency
Why? reason
How far? distance
How? manner
What kind of? description
What? object, idea, or action
.
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