SUBJECT QUESTIONS

QUESTIONS

What are the words you associate with questions?

What is the usual word order in a question?

What does the auxiliary indicate?

SUBJECT QUESTION

A subject question asks about the subject of the sentence.

Gina is fixing the computer?

Who is fixing the computer?

An accident happened last week?

What happened last week?

OBJECT QUESTION

An object question asks about the object of the sentence.

Gina met Mary. Who did Gina meet?

Frank saw an accident.

What did Frank see?

PRACTICE

Write a question about the underlined section of each answer below.

Use WHO for people and WHAT for things.

1. The doctor is working with the nurse.

Who is working with the nurse?

2. The doctor told the nurse to get the medicine.

Who did the doctor tell to get the medicine?

3. The repairman worked on the computer yesterday.

What did the repairman work on yesterday?

4. The repairman worked on the computer yesterday.

Who worked on the computer yeasterday?

5. The woman wrote a long letter.

Who wrote a long letter?

6. The woman wrote a long letter.

What did the woman write?

7. The teacher gave the student some advice.

What did the teacher give the student?

8. The teacher gave the student some advice.

Who gave the student some advice?

MORE PRACTICE

1. Sarah is doing her homework.

2. Martha finished reading her book.

3. Imagine is my favourite song.

4. Yoko Ono married John Lennon.

1. Who is doing her homework?

2. What did Martha finish?

3. What is your favourite song?

4. Who did Yoko Ono marry?