Instituto Salesiano Valdivia rea Acadmica Departamento de Ingls / Prof: Adriana M.

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WH Questions1 The interrogatives where, when, why, how, how much, how many, whose, which, what, who, and whom 1. Where: 2. When: 3. Why: asks about the location of something. e.g. Where are you going? I'm going home. asks about the time of some event e.g. When is your first English test? It's' on May, 14th asks about the purpose or reason for an action. e.g.. Why are you sleepy today? Because I studied all night long asks about: The manner of accomplishment e.g. How did you do it? With a bilingual dictionary The state or condition of something or somebody e.g. How is the weather? Pretty good. The extent or degree of a qua1ity: how old, how far, how tall, how often, how long, how much, how many, etc. e.g. How big is the room? About ten by sixteen is used for Uncountable Nouns. e.g. How much sugar do you need? A little, please. 6. How many: is used for countable Nouns e.g. How many brothers have you got? Two. 7. Whose: asks about ownership or relationship. e.g. Whose book did you read? John's book

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8. Which: asks about identity, choice, or selection among a small or limited number of persons or things. e.g. Which course do you like best? Mathematics. 9. What: asks about identity, choice, or selection among a large or unlimited number of persons or things e.g. What is your name? Michael Smith

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Who and Whom ask about the identity of one person or several people e.g. Who helped Tom today? Whom did Peter help today? or Who did Peter help to? Tom

Some expression to learn: What for and What about are conventional substitutes for Why. e.g. Why are you studying English? What are you studying English for? How about and What about have the same meaning and usage. Both expressions are merely question signals. e.g. How about the weather? What about your paper? Im about to finish it.

Exercises
I. Use how, how much, or how many in each of the following sentences. 1. __________________ lemon do you want in your tea? 2. __________________ expensive is that watch? 3. __________________ cold is it outside? 4. __________________ questions are there in the exercise? 5. __________________ is he travelling to Chicago? 6. __________________ long will you stay here? 7. __________________ far is Hawaii from California? 8. __________________ cups of coffee did you order? 9. __________________ coffee did those men order? II. Ask a question about the underlined part of each sentence. Begin each question with the word how. 1. It is fifteen feet wide. 2. There were fourteen people here. 3. I have a lot of time now 4. It isnt very cold outside now 5. They will be there for three weeks. 6. It cost about twenty-four dollars. 7. Her brother is fifty-two years old. 8. She bought three pairs of shoes. How wide is it? _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _______________________________________