{"id":54,"date":"2019-04-17T12:25:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T12:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/zyle\/?p=54"},"modified":"2021-03-23T04:57:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T04:57:34","slug":"wh-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/grammar\/wh-questions.htm","title":{"rendered":"Wh questions &#8211; English grammar courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson, we will talk about something called \u201cwh questions\u201d. These are question words that start with the letters \u201cwh\u201d. Those questions are: who, what, when, where, why and which. These words are used in the beginning of sentences to express an interrogative situation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Who<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Who is used to ask about a person as a subject. For example:<\/p>\n<p>-Who is this man?<\/p>\n<p>-Who are you?<\/p>\n<p>-Who wants to go to school?<\/p>\n<p>-Who is going to come tonight?<\/p>\n<p>-Who will it be?<\/p>\n<p>-Who are you going with?<\/p>\n<p>You use \u201cwhom\u201d if you\u2019re asking about people as an object although this rule isn\u2019t followed strictly. For example:<\/p>\n<p>-Whom did you talk to?<\/p>\n<p>-Whom did you see?<\/p>\n<p>You can use \u201cwhose\u201d to talk about ownership. For example:<\/p>\n<p>-Whose is this?<\/p>\n<p>-Whose is that?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u201d is used to ask about a thing or an action. For example:<\/p>\n<p>-What is this?<\/p>\n<p>-What are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>-What time is it?<\/p>\n<p>-What does the weather look like?<\/p>\n<p>-What happened?<\/p>\n<p>-What\u2019s going on?<\/p>\n<p>You can also use the formula \u201cwhat \u2026 for?\u201d to ask about the reason for something. For example:<\/p>\n<p>-What are you waiting for?<\/p>\n<p>-What are you doing that for?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>When<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When is used to ask about the time. For example:<\/p>\n<p>-When will you visit London?<\/p>\n<p>-When does that happen?<\/p>\n<p>-When are you going home?<\/p>\n<p>-When can we meet again?<\/p>\n<p>-When did she come?<\/p>\n<p>-When is the concert?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Where<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Where is used to ask about a place. For example:<\/p>\n<p>-Where are you going?<\/p>\n<p>-Where is my book?<\/p>\n<p>-Where did mom go?<\/p>\n<p>-Where will you be in five hours?<\/p>\n<p>-Where do you want to meet?<\/p>\n<p>-Where can we read some books?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why is used to ask about the reason for something. For examples:<\/p>\n<p>-Why are you going to school?<\/p>\n<p>-Why did you cry?<\/p>\n<p>-Why is the door open?<\/p>\n<p>-Why can\u2019t we go outside?<\/p>\n<p>-Why won\u2019t you help me?<\/p>\n<p>-Why does he always wake up so late?<\/p>\n<p>You can use \u201cwhy don\u2019t &#8230;\u201d to suggest something. For example:<\/p>\n<p>-Why don\u2019t you call her?<\/p>\n<p>-Why don\u2019t you go outside?<\/p>\n<p>-Why don\u2019t we meet up?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Which<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can use Which to talk about choice. For example:<\/p>\n<p>-Which dress do you like?<\/p>\n<p>-Which cinema should we go?<\/p>\n<p>-Which car should we buy?<\/p>\n<p>-Which company should I work in?<br \/>\n-Which meal do you want?<\/p>\n<p>-Which person did you talk to?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s do some exercises with what we have learned already. Make new questions using the following words: who are, who is, what is, what does, when will, when did, where did, where can, why are, why does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson, we will talk about something called \u201cwh questions\u201d. These are question words that start with the letters \u201cwh\u201d. Those questions are: who, what, when, where, why and which. These words are used in the beginning of sentences to express an interrogative situation. Who Who is used to ask about a person as &#8230; <a title=\"Wh questions &#8211; English grammar courses\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/grammar\/wh-questions.htm\" aria-label=\"Read more about Wh questions &#8211; English grammar courses\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}