This document discusses question words in English and Spanish and how they are used to form questions in different tenses, including: - Present simple questions using do/does and question words like what, when, where. - Present continuous questions using be + verb+ing and question words. - Simple past questions using did and question words. - Questions using who to ask about the subject or object of the sentence.

1. wh-questions
Autor: Jesús Mayora espada

2. Question words
ENGLISH SPANISH
What Qué
When Cuándo
Where Dónde
How Cómo
Why Por qué
How much Cuánto/a
How many Cuántos/as
Who Quién
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3. BASIC STRUCTURE
QUESTION
AUXILIARY SUBJECT VERB OBJECTS
WORD
When do they study English?
What did Elisabeth cook for dinner?
Why is Ellen shouting?
Where does he buy these cakes?
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4. Verb To Be
Question word Verb to be subject...?
When is the party?
Who is your cousin?
Why are they sad?
What is this?
Where are the children?
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5. Present continuous
Question
Is /are/ am subject V-ing Object ?
word
What are they eating?
Why is he running?
How many people are coming to the party?
Where is Jane waiting for us?
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6. Present Simple
Question
Do / does subject verb object?
Word
How do they make these cakes?
Where does she study?
How much sugar do you want?
When does the girl go to bed?
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7. Simple past
Question word did subject verb object?
Why did they call?
When did Tom arrive?
How many presents did you get?
Where did she go on holiday?
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8. Past Continuous
Question
Was / were subject v-ing object?
word
What were they wearing?
Why was she speaking to the teacher?
Where were the dogs sleeping?
What was Sally reading?
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9. Questions with Who
Asking about the Asking about the
subject. object.
Who invited you to Who did you invite to
the party? the party?
Tommy invited me. I invited all my
friends.
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10. Asking about the subject
Who verb object?
Who is your friend?
To be Paul is my friend
Present Who is singing that song?
continuous Sandra is singing the song.
Present Who lives here?
Simple Mr Jones lives here.
Simple Who made this cake?
Past My mum made the cake.
Past Who was playing the match?
Continuous Real Madrid was playing the match.
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11. Asking about the object.
Who Auxiliary subject verb object?
Present Who does Anne visit on Sundays?
Simple She visits her cousins,
Present Who are you writing to?
Continuous I am writing to my new pen friend.
Simple Past Who did he meet at the party?
He met my sister.
Past Who were they waiting for?
Continous They were waiting for a friend.
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12. Index
1. Question words.
2. Basic Structure.
3. Verb 'To be'.
4. Present Continuous.
5. Present Simple.
6. Simple Past.
7. Past Continuous.
8. Who; Asking about the subject.
9. Who; Asking about the object.