Question words / Open questions (Unit 10)

[Sunny]

Hi everybody!

I have some questions for you:

Who hates ice-cream?
What does 'love' mean?
Which is more important: fun or work?
Where are the limits of the sky?
When does the winter end exactly?
Why is a banana yellow?
Whose is the internet?
How do compasses work?

You employ who when you need information about a person.
You employ what when you need information about something, usually an object.
You employ which when you mean precise aspects.
You employ where when you ask a question about place.
You employ when when you ask a question about time.
You employ why when you want to know the reasons for something.
You employ whose when you ask a question about the owner of something.
You employ how when you ask a question about the manner of something.

Be careful: When you employ 'who' you use the main verb and not the verb 'to do'!

Do you also have some questions like mine? Just ask them. There might be someone who can answer them!

In Unit 11 you are going to learn how to tell the time.

[Guest]

How are regular your lessons?
Thanks

[Sunny]

I try to post a lesson once a week and I think the next one will be on tomorrow.

Regards Sunny

[Guest]

[Yo]

[Sunny]

I am not a teacher yet, but I would like to be one
Besides, I have fun doing this and I hope you have fun following the lessons, too!

Yo, thanks for your answers They sound perfectly plausible, but well... I still would like to know why a banana is yellow...

Sunny

[christopher]

It is not correct that a question with WHO never takes the auxiliary 'do/does/did'.
It depends if the answer refers to the subject or the object.

eg. subject answer.

John lives in Italy.
Who lives in Italy?
The answer is the subject, John and so there is no 'do/does/did'.
That is, it is not 'Who does live in Italy?'

However, where the answer is the object, then 'do/does/did' is used.
eg. object answer

John saw Peter yesterday.
Who did John see yesterday?
The answer is the object, that is, Peter.
It is incorrect to say, 'Who John see/saw yesterday?'
In this case, the auxiliary 'do/does/did' is used.

Christopher Kennedy

[Eslkorea]

nice set of questions...thanks for posting..i could use this...

[Swathi]

SIR WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE B/W MAIN VERB&THE VERB"TO do".REALLY LOT OF CONFUSIONS.
-PLEASE REPLY ME

[Ralf]

Hi swathi,

The 'main verb' is the verb that carries meaning. Without this verb, a sentence doesn't work.

'to do' is the infinitive verb form. Just imagine 'to' used as a pre-announcement of a verb.
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[Swathi]

thank you,sir.

[Tolanic]

Hello sir,
please can you explain when i can use whom and while.
thanks a lot.
tola

[Froty]

hello sir ,
thnx for the lesson , it is so easy

[Micho]

Who wants to be millionair?
What does your father do?
Which is better:going alone or with my friend?
Where are the gifts you told me about?
When you tell me that you love?
Why one apple a day keeps the doctor away?
Whose car is this?
How old are you?

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