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Information (Wh-) questionsPresent Tense: Be :Information (Wh-) questionsPresent Tense: Be Questions that ask for information This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Robert F. van Trieste
Why are Information questionscalled Wh-questions? :They are called wh-questions because they usually use a question word that begins with the letters wh. Why are Information questionscalled Wh-questions? Who
What
Where
Why
When
Which How
How much/many
How often However, one important wh-word does not begin with the letters wh.
Word order Present Tense beInformation Questions :Word order Present Tense beInformation Questions
Information question word order versus statement word order: verb be :Information question word order versus statement word order: verb be
Information question word order versus statement word order: Present Tense verb be :Information question word order versus statement word order: Present Tense verb be
Information question word order when subject is unknown: be :Information question word order when subject is unknown: be
Answer the question 1 :Answer the question 1 Those are bananas. What are those? Click on slide to see answer.
Answer the question 2 :Answer the question 2 A bird is on the branch. What is on the branch? Click on slide to see answer.
Answer the question 3 :Answer the question 3 It is a statue (of a lion). What is that? Click on slide to see answer.
Answer the question 4 :Answer the question 4 The bear is in a tree.
It is in a tree. Where is the bear? Click on slide to see answer.
Answer the question 5 :Answer the question 5 He is Fidel Castro. Who is he? Click on slide to see answer.
Answer the question 6 :Answer the question 6 The Washington Monument is in Washington, D. C. Where is the Washington Monument? Click on slide to see answer.
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