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# Interrogative pronouns: rules and examples

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Short answer. What asks about a thing. Who asks about a person. Where asks about a place, When about a time, Why about a reason and How about the way. Whose asks who owns something.

1 . Pick the right question. Farhan broke a glass. Ask about "a glass".

What asks about a thing. Who asks about a person. Where asks about a place, When about a time, Why about a reason and How about the way. Whose asks who owns something.

Match the question word to what you want to know.

Asking about the subject. If the question word is the subject, do not add do or did. The verb comes straight after it. If the statement has a helper, keep it.

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- Asking about the object . When the answer is not the subject, use: question word, do, does or did, subject, base verb. The past shows only in did.
- Asking about the subject . If the question word is the subject, do not add do or did. The verb comes straight after it. If the statement has a helper, keep it.
- Subject or object? . One sentence can give two questions. Ask about the doer: no did. Ask about the one the action is done to: use did.
- Match the question word to what you want to know.

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