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Types of questions

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Question
Answer
Example
What
Thing
What is that?
When
Time
When is the game?
Who
Person
Who do you live with?
Where
Place
Where do you live?
Why
Reason
Why are you happy?
How
Directions/Feelings
How are you?
WH- QUESTIONS

WH questions ask for information. They are different than Yes/No questions.
There are 6 different WH question words:

STRUCTURE
WH questions in simple present use “do” or “be”:

WH Questions with "do"

WH + DO/DOES + SUBJECT + VERB

Examples:
Where do you work? / Where does she live? / When do you wake up?

WH Questions with "be"

WH + BE + SUBJECT

Examples:
Where are you from? / Who is that man? / …show more content…

Open the window, won 't you?
We use shall after Let 's.
Let 's take the next bus, shall we?
Auxiliary must
We must be at home at 8 pm, mustn 't we?
Yes, we must.
No, we needn 't.

ECHO QUESTIONS

We often reply to statements by making short questions, containing just an auxiliary verb and a personal pronoun. - It was an awful party.
- Was it?
- Yes, there was nobody there I know, and … These ‘reply questions’ do not ask for information. They express interest, concern, surprise, anger, or other reactions, depending on the intonation.
Their most common use is just to show that we are listening. - We had a lovely holiday. (no auxiliary)
- Did you?
- Yes, we went … - I’ve got a headache.
- Have you, dear? I’ll get you an aspirin. In reply questions, we use the same auxiliary verb that was used in the sentence we are answering. If there was no auxiliary verb, we use ‘do’. - He smokes too much. (no auxiliary)
- Does he?
- Yes, he tried to give it up but … We use negative echo questions in reply to negative statements. - It wasn´t a very good film.
- Wasn´t it? That’s a pity!

INDIRECT QUESTIONS

An indirect question is when a question is ‘inside’ another question.

We must begin with Can/ could you tell me? or Do you know?,… Our original question is now ‘inside’ the new question: Can you tell me where the supermarket is?

You will see that the word order

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