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1 Questions
Question forms
There are many possible question forms.
Who wrote this article?
Subject question with no auxiliary verb
What are they looking at?
Question with a preposition at the end
How difficult was the test?
What type of car is that? Question word + adjective
Question word + noun
How come you were late?

Make the questions. Another (informal) way of asking Why?

1 Who / eat / the cake
2 How / often / you / go to the gym
Who ate the cake?
How often do you go to the gym?

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what and which

What and which are used with nouns to make questions.
What/Which film did you see? Sometimes there is no difference
between what and which.
Which music do you prefer – Which is used if the speaker has a
jazz or rock? limited number of choices in mind.

What music do you like? What is used if the speaker is not

thinking of a limited number of choices.
Complete the sentences.
1 _____
What sports do you play?
2 We’ve got 3 cakes. Which
_____ one do you want?

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Asking for descriptions

What is X like? and How is X? are used to ask for descriptions.

What’s his flat like?

Asks for information
How’s your brother?
Asks about health and happiness
Sometimes both questions are possible.
What was the film like?
How was the film? Asks for objective information
Asks for a personal opinion
Make the questions to match the answers.

1 ‘(your holiday?)’ ‘It was fantastic!’

2 ‘(the test?)’ ‘It was two hours long.’ How was your holiday?

What was the test like?

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Indirect questions
There is no inversion and no do/does/did in indirect questions.

Why is she shouting?

When does the bus arrive? Direct questions with inversion
We’re not sure why she is shouting.
Tell me when the bus arrives.
No inversion
No does
Make the indirect questions.
1 I wonder / how old / Irma
2 He / not sure / where / you / live
3 I / not know / what / she / mean
I wonder how old Irma is.
He’s not sure where you live.
I don’t know what she means.

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