1: I found the cat near the beach.
Where have you found the cat?
Where did you find the cat?
Where you found the cat?
2: Very long and boring.
What the film was like yesterday?
How was the film like yesterday?
What was the film like yesterday?
3: $ 10.
How many was it?
How much it was?
How much did you spend?
4: It’s my mom’s.
Whose smartphone is this?
Who’s smartphone is this?
Who is this smartphone?
5: The purple and orange one.
What of these pens do you want to buy?
Which of these pens do you want to buy?
Which pen you want to buy?
6: 20 years.
How much time have you worked in this
office?
When did you worked in this office?
How long have you worked in this office?
7: Because I’ve been waiting for his phone
call all day.
Why are you so mad?
Why you are so mad?
Why were you so mad?
8: A glass of wine, please.
Would you like a glass of wine?
What are you having?
What do you drink?
9: I’m a bank manager.
What are you doing?
What’s your work?
What do you do?
10: My mother and father.
With what people did you go?
Who did you go?
Who did you go with?
11: In 2009.
When did you move to New York?
When have you moved to New York?
What year you moved to New York?
12: My uncle Tom.
Whom gave you this beautiful sweater?
Who gave you this beautiful sweater?
Who did give you this beautiful sweater?
13: Next summer.
When you are going to Hawaii?
Are you going to Hawaii?
When are you going to Hawaii
14. Tom told her
Who did tell her?
Who told her?
Who had told her?
15. Arthur Thompson
Can you tell me what is your name?
Can you tell me what your name is?
Would you mind telling me what is your
name?
16. Mary
To who does this pen belong?
Whom does this pen belong to
Who does this pen belong to?
17. He’s a plumber.
Have you got any idea what does he do for a
living?
Have you got any idea what he does for a
living?
Have you got any idea what does he for a
living?
Auxiliary verb + subject+ main verb
What did
she
want?
Who did
she
go with?
( dependent prepositions go after the main verb) Old fashioned English : With whom did she go?
Whom = who, after a preposition. Formal letters “ To whom it may concern” when there is not a
specific name or title.
Compare ; To whom does this pen belong? Who does this pen belong to?
Examples of dependent prepositions:
Go with, speak to, belong to, live with , apply for, believe in, interested in, worry about etc.
Do you worry a lot?
Did you worry about me a lot ?
What are you worried about?
***LOOK AT THE VERBS AND DECIDE WHICH PREPOSITIONS THAY TAKE
STUDENTS TEST EACH OTHER
STUDENTS ASK OPEN QUESTIONS USING DEPENDENT PREPOSITION QUESTIONS
What does your typical Saturday consist........?
Have you ever borrowed money …........ a friend?
What was the last thing you borrowed?
Have you ever crashed your car............. anything?
What kind of things do you usually worry..............?
Do you usually apologise …......... arriving late?
Do you suffer ….......... any allergies or health problems?
Do you agree …...........
Have you ever translated something …....... your language?
SUBJECT QUESTIONS
Object question/ normal question “WHO DO YOU LOVE?” YOU IS THE SUBJECT/ MAIN
FOCUS, AGENT
Subject question WHO LOVES YOU? WHO IS THE SUBJECT, no auxiliary verb
WHAT HAPPENED?
NOT WHAT DID HAPPEN?
WE MAKE SUBJECT QUESTIONS WITH :
WHO, WHAT, WHICH….
Who did Kennedy kill? No one.
Who killed Kennedy? Lee Harvey Oswald
Write the question for these answers
1. The teenagers enjoyed the party (object question).
What did the teenagers enjoy?
2. The teenagers enjoyed the party (subject question).
Who enjoyed the party?…………………………………………………………..?
3. The caterpillar became a butterfly (object question).
What did………………………………………………………….?
4. The caterpillar became a butterfly (subject question).
what…………………………………………………………?
5 Luke read the textbook (subject question).
Who read the textbook?……………………………………………………….?
6. Luke read the textbook (object question).
…What did Luke read?…………………………………………………….?
7. David has lost his wallet (subject question).
Who has lost his wallet?………………………………………………….?
8. David has lost his wallet (object question).
What has David lost………………………………………………….?
9. Julie loves ice cream (object question).
…What does Julie love?……………………………………………..?
10. Marconi invented the telegraph ( subject question)
…Who invented the telegraph?…………………………………………..?
INDIRECT QUESTIONS
Do you know……?
Can/Could you tell me…..?
Have you any idea…….?
Would you mind telling me…..?
I wonder if you could tell me what time it is?
What, where , who why type questions
Compare
What time do you want breakfast?
Could you tell me what time you want breakfast?
Yes /No questions
Do you live in Cagliari?
Would you mind telling me if/whether you live in Cagliari?
*** worksheet of mixed direct and indirect questions.