Asking Questions

We ask wh_ word questions to find out more particular information about who, what, how, when, where, how much, how many, etc. Those questions begin with a special question word.

Here is a piece of information:

Mary bought that book in Smiths.

We can ask one question about the subject:

            Who bought that book?                                              –                    Mary did

(The subject of the question is who)

The basic pattern for this type question is:

Question word  +  verb  +  object

We can ask two questions abou the object:

What did Mary buy?                                               –                   That book

Where did Mary buy that book?                              –                   In Smiths

The basic pattern for this type of question is:

            Question word  +  auxiliary  +  subject  +  verb

Most wh_ word questions are made in this way: