Use Question Words in English

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Hello, and thank you for watching VisiHow. In today's tutorial, we will discuss in the English language, how to use question words.

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   There are a few different ways in English to ask questions

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   One of those ways is by beginning the question with a question word. We will provide examples of seven different question words. These are almost all of them. We may include a couple others, which we will mention, but will not go over.

   

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   Our question words include, "who", "what", "which", "when", "where", "why" and "how"

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   We may also include, "how often" or "how much", but we won't discuss them here. We will only discuss the basic question words.

   

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   We can begin a question with "who" when we are asking about people

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   "What" and "which" are for when we are asking about things

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   "When" is used when we are asking about time

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   "Where" is used when we are asking about places

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   "Why" is for when we are asking for a reason

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   "How" is for when we are asking for more information

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   The following sentences we will give are examples of questions that begin with each question word

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   Using "who", we can ask, "Who did you go with?"

   

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    Using "what", we can ask, "What time did you leave?"

    

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    Using "which", we can ask, "Which apple should I buy?"

    

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    Using "when", we can ask, "When will you arrive?"

    

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    Using "where", we can ask, "Where are you going?"

    

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    Using "why", we can ask, "Why did you leave?"

    

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    Using "how", we can ask, "How did you do that?"

    

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    In each of these sentences, we can see that our question words begin the sentence - "who", "what", "which", "when", "where", "why" and "how"

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    This concludes today's tutorial on English language question words, and how we can use them to create questions

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    If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please leave them in the space below.

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