WH Questions

There are 2 main types of questions: Yes/No questions and WH question. WH Questions are questions starting with WH words including: what, when, where, who, whom, which, whose, why and how.

Question words are used to ask about specific qualities, times, places, people and so on. Below is a list of question words and example sentences:

Question words	Usages	Examples
What	Used to ask about things	- What is you job? - What do you know about me?
When	Used to ask about time and date	- When do you go home? - When do you married?
Where	Used to ask about places or locations	- Where’s my the super market? - Where is your mote bike?
Who	Used to ask about person	- Who do you your girlfriend? - Who say that I am MARRY?
Whom	Used to ask about people (object of verb)	- Whom did you did you talk to?  I saw you answer the phone. - Whom was Johnny talking to? He was talking to Jack, his new roommate.
Which	Used to ask about choices	- Which one do you like most? The phone or the books? - For all the foods in the menu, which one would you love?
Whose	Used to ask about possession	- Whose book is this? Is it mine? - Whose cars are those?
Why	Used to ask about reasons/ causes	- Why do you want to learn English? - Why are you doing this?
How	Used to ask about manner/ process	- How do you go to school?  - How do you cook Carry?

I. How to form WH-questions?

1. With an auxiliary

Wh-word + auxiliary + subject + main verb …?

• Auxiliary verbs are helping verbs (not main verbs).
• Common auxiliary verbs include to Be (am, is, are, was were), to Do (do, did, done) , to have (have, has, had). Others are will, shall, would, can, could, must, should, may, might, etc.

• What is you currier?
• Why should we learn English?
• When do you go home?

2. Without any auxiliary

(when WH-words replace subjects already)

Wh-word + main verb …?

• What happened?
• A bad traffic accident happened to him last week.

• Who won the game?
• Tio won the game.

• Who gave you this present?
• My cousin gave me this present.

II. Responding to WH-questions

1. What

• What is it?
• It’s an apple.

• What is you best score?
• It’s 95.

• What are you doing right now?
• I'm cooking the food.

• What is your love subject?
• I love mathematic.

• What is the weather today?
• It is a bit cloudy.

2. When

• When do you go home?
• I go home at 5pm.

• When is your birthday?
• It's on 15 June.

• When do the ban start?
• It starts on 5 minutes.

• When will you back from the vocation?
• I will back in 2 week.

3. Where

• Where is your book?
• It is in my bag.

• Where do you go for for the holidays?
• I go to visit my grandmother.

• Where is the mount Fuji ?
• Mount Fuji is in Japan.

• Where do you go after school?
• I go home.

• Where is my order?
• Your order will be finished in 3 minute sir.

4. Who

• Who are you?
• I am Mr. Jonh's son.

• Who does this amazing statues?
• His name is Mr. William.

• Who is cooking for your dinner today?
• It's always be me.

• Who told you abut this?
• Mr. Hang did. He told me everything.

5. Whom

• Whom should we talk to?
• We should talk to the principal. She’s responsible for student issues.

• Whom did you see yesterday?
• I saw Kevin and his girlfriend.

• Whom would you like to interview?
• I would like to interview Mr.Patrick, the director.

• Whom do we have to contact?
• We have to contact the representative of that company.

• Whom did you meet in front of the building last week?
• That was Annie, my secretary.

• Whom do you know in this class?
• I only know Danny.

• Whom are you going to invite?
• I’m going to invite all of my classmates

• With whom do you agree?
• I agree with Henry’s team.

6. Which

• Which shirt do you like?
• I like the one with the big yellow star on it.

• Which color do you choose?
• I choose red.

• Which part do you like the most in this story?
• I love the 2nd part when the prince came and proposed to the princess.

• Which is the longest river in the world?
• That’s the Nile.

• Which one is yours?
• Mine is the biggest one.

7. Whose

• Whose jacket is this?
• It’s my mom’s.

• Whose birthday is today?
• It’s Jenny’s.

• Whose pencil is on the floor?
• That’s mine.

• Whose team is better?
• Will’s team is much better.

8. Why

• Why don’t we visit him now?
• It’s a good idea.

• Why did you leave so early?
• Because I didn’t enjoy the party.

• Why do you think that he loves you?
• Because he’s given me lots of chocolate on Valentine’s day.

• Why do people celebrate Thanksgiving?
• Because it’s a special day.

• Why can’t I go to the cinema now?
• Because you haven’t done your homework.

• Why are you so late?
• Sorry, teacher. I missed the bus.

9. How

• How’s the weather?
• It’s sunny and hot.

• How do you feel?
• I feel much better now.

• How did you know him?
• We were old friends.

• How’s your new job?
• It’s interesting. I enjoy it.

• How often do you go to the movie theater?
• I sometimes go there. I’m quite busy.

• How far is it from your house to school?
• Not too far. I walk to school every day.

• How much did it cost?
• It cost $4.

• How many people are there in your class?
• There are 30 of them.

• How come you lost the game?
• I couldn’t answer the first question well enough.