This document contains information and examples about forming questions from statements and reporting questions indirectly or directly in English. It provides rules for forming what, how, which, and whose questions from statements. Examples are given for indirect questions using if/whether. The document also contains examples and practice for reported questions, where a question is reported as a statement. Key points covered include changing the word order and changing the tense when reporting questions.

1. Unit 9
Page 85
Meaning into Words
Information Questions
Rules:
1. Questions that begin from
• WHAT ….?
• HOW ….?
• WHICH ….?
• WHOSE….?
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2. Common name – find common name of three objects
3. Make the question on the same given question
4. Remove the answer part
12. Did you use half-inch/
one-inch/ three-quarter-inch
screws?
b. What size of screws did you use?

2. 1. What = for things
a. What kind of ….?
b. What size of …?
c. What colour of …?
Wh – word + common name + aux + sub + verb + obj?
Structure
2. How = for quantity
a. How many ….?
b. How much …?

3. 3. Which = for things
a. Which + object ….?
4. Whose = for relationship/ possession
b. Are there five/ six/ seven of you?
Ans: How many of you are there?
b. Do you take 40/42 size of shoes?
Ans: What size of shoes do you take?

4. Example:-
1. Are we having tomato/ chicken/ mushroom soup
today?
Ans: What soup are we having today?
2. Was it raining/ foggy/ cold when you were in London?
Ans: How was the weather when you were in London?
3. Are you planning to use your father’s car/ Tony’s car/
my car?
Ans: Whose car are you planning to use?
4. Are you going to boil/ fry / scramble those eggs?
Ans: How are you cooking those eggs?
What are you going to do with those eggs?

5. 12. Did you use half-inch/ one-inch/ three-
quarter-inch screws?

6. Indirect Questions
Example:-
1.What are golf balls made of?
Do you know What golf balls are made of?
Rules:-
Given clue + Direct question (s+HV)…?
2. Have the election results been
announced yet? HV+SUBJECT = SUBJECT+HV
Do you know if/ whether the election
results have been announced yet?

7. Indirect Questions (Page 86, 9.3)
Practice:
1. What time did you wake up this morning?
Can you remember …?
Can you remember what time you woke up this
morning?
2. How much do colour TVs cost these days?
Have you any idea…?
Have you any idea how much colour TVs cost these
days?
3. BoardExam: When are they getting engaged? I
am longing to know… .
I am longing to know When they are getting
engaged.

8. Indirect Questions (Page 86, 9.3)
Practice:
3. What time does the film start?
I wonder …
4. Was he alone?
Did you notice…?
5. When are they getting married?
I’m longing to know …
6. Did I lock the front door?
Do you remember…?
7. Has the train left?
Have you found out …?
8. What colour curtains did they buy?
Do you know…?

9. 8. What colour curtains did they buy?
Do you know…?
Do you know what colour curtains they bought?
Are you coming next week? I need to know…
I need to know if you are coming next week.

10. Reported Questions (Page 89, 9.7)
Practice:
1. Did you have a good journey?
2. Are you hungry?
3. Did you have a meal on the plane?
4. Did you have any trouble at customs?
Ans:
1. The first man asked the speaker if he had had a
good journey.
2. He asked if she/ he/ I was hungry.

11. Reported Questions (Page 89, 9.7)
Practice:
5. How are you feeling?
6. Have you been vaccinated against cholera?
7. How much do you smoke?
8. Do you do any exercise?
9. Have you been sleeping badly?

12. Reported Questions (Page 89, 9.7)
Practice:
10. Have you worked in a restaurant before?
11. How far away do you live?
12. Are you willing to work in the evening?
13. When can you start?

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