Question structure Confirmation and Information questions

1. QuestionQUESTION WORDS By Mandi
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2. Type of Question
There are two types
◦Confirmation
and
◦Information questions
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3. Confirmation questions
or Yes-No questions
◦ With confirmation questions you generally
expect an answer like YES, NO MAYBE OR
SOMETIMES.
◦ The order of the words in a confirmation
question is important
 AUXILIARY-SUBJECT-VERB
◦ Do you swim?
◦ Will he go?
◦ Can she sing?
◦ Are they working?
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4. Information Questions
 Are questions that ask for details such as
time, place, possession, person, thing,
etc. etc.
 The order of information question is
 WH-AUX-SUB-VERB
 EG:
◦ Who are you calling?
◦ Where are you going?
◦ When will you eat?
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5. WH Question
◦Who to identify people
Who’s your English teacher?
◦Where to identify places
Where is the nearest bank?
◦When to identify the time
When is your birthday?
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6. WH Question
◦What to identify things
What’s your favorite drink?
◦What time for specific time
What time is it?
◦What Kind of
What Kind of Woman Are You?
◦What type of to qualify
what type of star is the sun?
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7. WH Question
◦Why to discover the reason.
 Remember answer Why questions with
Because
 Why is English spelling so difficult?
 Because the letters sound different
◦Which, when you have various
options and need to choose one
 Which city do you live in?
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8. WH Question
◦ Whose to identify the owner of something
(possession)
 1.(the possessive case of who used as an
adjective):
◦ Whose umbrella did I take? Whose is this one?
 2.(the possessive case of which used as an
adjective):
◦ a word whose meaning escapes me; an animal whose
fur changes color.
 3.the one or ones belonging to what person or
persons:
◦ Whose painting won the third prize?
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9. WH Question
◦ How to discover status or method
◦ How Far to ask about distances
◦ How many to ask about quantity of
things you can count COUNTABLES
◦ How much to ask about quantity of
things you cannot count
UNCOUNTABLES
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11. References
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http://www.dictionary.com/
http://www.slideshare.net/mauricantonio/wh-
questions-12175204
http://www.slideshare.net/ang_ruiz/wh-
questions-presentation
http://www.learnenglish-
online.com/grammar/whquestions.html
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-
grammar/questions-wh-questions