WH Questions

Asking Questions

by Teacher Sarahi Bustillos

​WH QUESTIONS

• Questions that start with a word that starts with WH (except HOW)

​Structure with verb to be

​Rest of the verbs

Multiple Choice

Which of these questions is a WH question with the verb to be?

• What time is it?

• Who is that woman?

​What is each of the wh questions used for? part 1

Who ​

​- Ask about person

​- Act as subject of the sentece

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​Example:

​Who is that men?

​Who are you phoning?

Where

- ​Asking in or at what place or position

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​Example:

​Where do you live?

​Where are my boots?

​What

​- Asking for specific thing, object

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​Example:

​What's the matter?

​What time is it?

​What is each of the wh questions used for? Part2

​Why

​- Asking for reason, explanation

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​Example:

​Why were you late?

​Why was he late?

​When

​- Asking about time, occasion, moment

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​Example:

​When can I see you?

​When did you last see him

​How

​- Asking for way, manner, form

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​Example:

​How does it work?

​How do you go to school?

Multiple Choice

Is the reason something happened

• Who

• Why

Multiple Choice

We use it to ask about place

• Where

• When

​THANKS FOR YOUR COLLABORATION