Class 7-2: Question Words
Why does he own so many clothes?
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Question words are used to get information. They include who, what, when, where, why, how, which and whose. |
| Question Word: Who | Rules: Who is asking about a specific person and is used as the subject of the sentence. A singular verb almost always follows who in the sentence. | Examples: Who took my pencil? |
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What |
What can be used as the subject of the sentence. (Example 1) What can be used as the object of the sentence. (Example 2) What can come before a noun in a sentence. (Example 3) What kind of is used when a speaker needs to make a decision about the type of object they want. (Example 4) What + do is used to ask for information about the subject. (Example 5) What+ verb can be used to ask information about an action that is being performed. (Example 6) | 1. What’s wrong? 2. She said what? 3. What time is it? 4. What kind of cereal do you want? 5. What does she want? 6. What is she doing upstairs? |
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When |
A speaker uses when to ask a question about time? |
When do you want to leave? |
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Question Word: Where |
Rules: A speaker uses where to ask questions about a place or about the place of noun. | Examples: 1. Where do you want to go 2. Where’s Oregon? |
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Why |
A speaker uses why to ask for explanation about a subject. |
Why are there 50 stars on the American Flag? |
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How |
A speaker uses how to describe directions. (Example 1) A speaker also uses how to understand the amount of time it takes to do an action. (Example 2) A speaker uses how often to understand the amount of times an action is being performed. (Example 3) A speaker uses how far to describe the distance of a subject. (Example 4) A speaker uses how much to ask the quantity of a certain subject. (Example 5) | 1. How do you speak English? 2. How long does it take to learn English? 3. How often do you go to restaurants? 4. Howfar is Washington, DC to California? 5. Howmuch money do you have? |
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Which |
A speaker uses which, when he/she is making a choice from a specific number of possibilities. |
There are 19 cars. Whichcar do you want? |
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Whose |
A speaker uses whose, when wanting to know the person that owns a noun. |
Whose book is this? |
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| Sentence Structure Formulas: Who + is + gerund + preposition Who is talkingto Jackie? What + noun + auxiliary verb What time is it? When + auxiliary verb + pronoun + main verb? When are you leaving? Where + auxiliary verb + my + noun? Where is my book? Why + auxiliary verb + pronoun + adjective? Why are you happy? How + adjective + auxiliary verb + pronoun? How old are you? Whose + noun + auxiliary verb + this/these? Whose notebook is this? |
How much money does he have?
Exercise
Exercise 1: Write the correct question word for each question.
1.Question: Who is the woman? | Answer: She is my mother.
2.Question: ________ time is it? | Answer: It’s three o’clock.
3.Question: ________ are you leaving? | Answer: I am leaving at 7 A.M.
4.Question: ________ is my book? | Answer: It’s on the table.
5.Question: ________ are you happy? | Answer: I did well in school.
6.Question: ________ do you draw? | Answer: With lots of practice.
7.Question: ________ notebook is this? | Answer: It’s Tom’s notebook.
Exercise 2: You have been given a once-in-a-lifetime chance to travel back in time and interview Ben Franklin. Read the paragraph below, and answer the questions.
I am so excited! I just created a time machine, and it is going to let me go back in time and interview Ben Franklin. I’ll be traveling back to July, 1776, and will talk to him just after the Declaration of Independence would have been signed. I will be in Philadelphia. Even though Franklin has done a lot in his life, I want to talk to him about the drafting and signing of the Declaration of Independence. I’m a little worried that he will be scared of me if tell him I’m from the future, but once I explain everything to him, I actually think he’ll be really excited. I will just sit him down and tell him the truth. He was an inventor, so I’m sure he will be fascinated by my time machine. He will probably have a lot of questions for me. I wonder if he will want to come back to the future with me. I would for sure get an “A” on my history project if I brought him in to class to talk.
My paper is due on January 17. I chose Ben Franklin because his birthday is actually also on January 17. Plus, he’s really interesting.
1.Whom are you going to interview? I am going to interview Ben Franklin.
2.Where will the interview take place? _____________________________
3.Why do you want to interview this person? _____________________________
4.What date will you need to set the time machine to? _____________________________
5.How do you plan to explain to Ben Franklin that you come from the future? _______________________
6.When will your paper be ready? _____________________________
7.Why did you choose Ben Franklin as the subject of your paper? _____________________________
8.What grade do you hope to get on your paper? _____________________________
9.What will you try to do to get an “A” on your paper? _____________________________
10.What important document did Franklin help draft and sign? _____________________________
Exercise 3: Work in pairs. You are a journalist. Interview your classmate to see what person they would like to meet the most. (The person does not need to be currently living. It can be anyone in history.) Write down your classmate’s response.
1.Whom are you going to meet? _____________________________
2.Where would you like to meet this person? _____________________________
3.Why do you want to meet this person? _____________________________
4.What are you and the person going do when you meet. _____________________________
5.When would you like to meet this person? _____________________________
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