WH questions

WH questions

What are WH questions?

A WH question in English is a request for information.

WH questions usually start with a word beginning with WH-, but "How" is also included. The wh- words are: what, when, where, who, whom, which, whose, why and how.

How to create a WH question?

Auxiliary verbs

(most common)

It's used to ask for information about something or to confirm something.

• What is your name?

• What? I can't understand what you said.

• What do you do for living?

It's used to refer to people, to discover the subject of the action

• Who is your teacher?

• Who is it?

• Who is that boy?

We use it to ask who owns something.

• Whose bag is this?

• Whose sunglasses are these?

• Whose bike is this?

It's used to ask for an option, when there is a choice to make.

• Which car will you buy?

• Which do you prefer? Tea or coffee?

• Which phone did you get?

It's used to ask for a place or position where something is located.

• Where is the library?

• Where are my keys?

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We use it to ask about time, a place or an occasion.

• When is your birthday?

• When is the Independence day?

It's used to ask for the reason of something.

• Why did you say so?

• Why are you here?

It's used to ask for a way, manner, form or to describe a process.

• How are you?

• How does it work?