1. QUESTION WORDS.
How to make questions in English? We need something essential, the auxiliary verb, (do, does, did, didn´t, is, are, etc.),
and the structure is the next:
Interrogative pronoun auxiliary subject verb complement.
(Always at first of the sentence)
Example: Who did homework has an extra point.
We use interrogative pronouns to ask questions in which we demand information about a place, a person, an object, etc.
So this interrogative pronouns will depend of what we want to know.
In the next chart (below), we´ll find out how to use them:
PRONOUN INTERROGATIVE WHEN TO USE IT
WHO To ask for a person
WHAT To ask for a thing or an idea
WHICH To ask for something (normally we use this
when there are more than one option
WHEN To ask for a specific time
WHERE To ask for a place
WHY To ask for a reason
HOW To ask for the manner of somebody or
something
HOW MUCH/ HOW MANY To ask for quantity
WHOSE To ask for possession of something
Exercise.
Fill in the gaps to complete the question, taking into count the answer underlined
__________ is this? - It is a pencil.
__________ are you today? - I´m wonderful, thanks!
__________ is in the classroom? - Two of my classmates.
__________ are my glasses? - They are over the table.
__________ are you so sad? - Because I failed my exam.
__________ is the next long weekend? - It´s until July.
__________ place is better? - In my opinion, Cancun is the best!
__________ is this truck? - It´s my cousins’
Using the sentences from the exercise before, talk with a partner and ask each other those questions, remember you
have to use the pronoun interrogative