Question

Form a which question to get the following as an answer-
This word means something.
(a)When does this word mean?
(b)Who does this word mean?
(c)What does this word mean?
(d)Why does this word mean?

Answer 1

Hint: The answer to the question which we have to form is “this word means something”. It means that the meaning of something is being asked.

Complete answer: In this question, we have to form a question on our own, which will have the given sentence as its answer. Interrogative Sentences can be classified into two types-(i) Yes/No questions: That can be answered in Yes/No and (ii)Wh questions: Questions that begin with Wh words, What, Where, Which, Who, How, etc.
An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, which, when, where, who, whom, whose, why, whether and how. They are sometimes called wh-words because in English most of them start with wh-. They may be used in both direct questions and indirect questions.
Now, let us examine all the given options to find out the correct option :
Option ‘a’ – it cannot be the correct answer as we use “when” as a conjunction meaning ‘at the time that’, which is not required here.
Option ‘b’ – it is also an incorrect option because we use “who” to refer to the subject of a sentence.
Option ‘c’ – it is the correct option because You use what when you are asking for information about something. You can use what as a pronoun or a determiner. When you use what as a pronoun, it can be the subject, object, or complement of a verb.
Option ‘d’ – it is the wrong answer as “why” is used. We can use why to ask about reasons and explanations.
Hence, option ‘c’ is the correct option.

Note: In questions beginning with Wh words, no conjunction (that, if, whether) is used instead the Wh word itself functions as a conjunction. Eg: He said to me, “What are you doing?”→ Direct
He asked me what I was doing.→ Indirect