WH-+ Auxiliary Verb + Subject + Verb (In Correct Form) ?: Object Questions Subject Questions

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Wh- + auxiliary verb + subject + Verb (in correct form) ?

We use auxiliary (helping) verbs in object questions.


Object questions use interrogative word order, so the subject and the auxiliary verb switch places.
Please answer these questions:
What are you doing right now?
What did you have for breakfast today?
When do you usually wake up?
Why are you reading this? =)
These are all object questions, because the answer is the object of the sentence.
Now lets look at this example:

What happened?
How can we answer this?
Changes happened.
Are changes the subject or object in the sentence Changes happened?
Yep, the subject. They actually happened, they did the action, theyre not details.
So this question What happened? is called a subject question, because the answer is the subject.
These questions dont use interrogative word order, they use affirmative word order. In order to form them, we take a normal sentence and change the subject to Who or
What.
For example:
Freddy called this evening. ----> Who called this evening?
The cat jumped on my new dress! ----> What jumped on your new dress? OR What happened to your new dress?
We form subject questions like this:

Wh- + verb + ?

As you see, we dont use auxiliary verbs in subject questions.


Now tell me this:
Who called you yesterday?
What happened to your favorite character in a book?
Who are you going to meet tomorrow?
Here is all the information in one table:

Object questions

Subject questions

- Normal usual questions


- The answer to this question is the object
- Use auxiliary (helping) verbs
- Question word order

- The answer to this question is the subject


- No auxiliary verbs
- Subject + verb + object
- Affirmative word order, WH-word is the subject

Where are you going? to the hospital


What are you going to wear? a black dress

Who told you? My friend.


What happened?

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