hi everyone and welcome to the english danny channel i'm teacher john and i'm here to help
you become great at learning english today's topic is question words and actually there are
a lot of different question words in english that all mean different things and we've already done
a video about those uh those words so today we're really going to look at how to use them
because there's there's really a lot of different ways to use these words to ask a question
about a specific topic or event and especially you can use them differently if you want a different
kind of answer so let's take a look at all the different question words in english okay just as a
quick review and we'll very quickly talk about the meaning of some of them
so you can remember what they mean all right so we have who whom whose which what when where why and
how so these words they're all used in questions to show what kind of information you want okay
what are you asking about so for example if you say who said that you are asking for the personal
subject the answer will be a pronoun right like he said that or she said that or it can be a name
so in this in this sentence when will it be ready the word when shows that you're asking for a time
expression usually starting with a preposition like in or at okay or on so you can answer
in december or um at five o'clock and here our last example is why are you
laughing and when we use the word why we're asking for a reason for something so the answer usually
you will start with the word because we use that word to give a reason it's important to remember
some of these rules about all of these different words because it can seem like there's so many
all right but here try to remember these rules who and whom are pronouns and they act as the
subject or the object in the question when where why and how all act as adverbs in the question
and what which and whose they can be both pronouns or determiners so let's look at a few examples of
this so here we have the sentence what do you want okay in this question what is a pronoun but then
we can see in the next sentence what kind do you want what is now a determiner for the word kind
we can also see this again in the next sentence which is mine this is a pronoun
okay which is being used as a pronoun but in the next sentence which coat is mine now which is
being used as a determiner for the word coat it's also important to remember that question words
usually come at the beginning of the clause okay when a question word is the subject
it comes before the verb so the word do can't be used normally let's look at some examples
who said that okay who is the subject here so we cannot say who did say that okay we can't use the
word do so we must use just the past tense form of say okay but here when who is the object we can
use the word did who did you invite so it's also important to remember that english does not have
one question word for every situation sometimes we need to use two or more words okay for example
what time is the meeting okay you can say when is the meeting but what time is also works okay
here we have how many people are coming okay in this example especially the second sentence
there's no word to ask about the number of of something so we have to use how many or how much
and then the third sentence here we have how far is the grocery store so you you can clearly see
here that sometimes we need to use more than one word in english there is no simple word
or expression that can be used to ask for a verb okay so usually we make a sentence using
two words what and do so for example what are you doing tomorrow studying what did you do yesterday
rested to ask for complete information about one event you should use what happen
so for example what's happening at school today all right everyone that's our video
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