Question

Frame ‘wh’ question for the given sentence.
Anne is watching the television.
(a) Is Anne watching the television?
(b) Who is watching the television?
(c) Anne is watching the television, isn’t she?
(d) Anne is watching what?

Answer 1

Hint:Read the given sentence and try to understand the information it is trying to convey. Now, go through the options and point out the one of which the given sentence can be an appropriate response/answer. Make sure to select the grammatically correct option.

Complete answer: Interrogative words or ‘Wh’ words are used to indicate questions and relative clauses. The different ‘wh’ words are; whom, which, who, what, when, where, etc.
Let’s look at the functions of different ‘wh’ words-
i. Which- ‘Which’ is used to indicate the specific thing or person out of the given choices. For example- Which cup is yours?
ii. Whose- ‘Whose’ is used to enquire about ownership. For example- Whose child is this?
iii. Who- ‘Who’ acts as a subject in an interrogative sentence. It is used to ask questions about people. For example- Who is walking on the road?
iv. Whom- ‘Whom’ acts like an object in an interrogative sentence. It is used to ask questions about people. For example- Whom will you call?
In the context of the question, we know that ‘Anne’ is watching the television.
Hence, the correct ‘wh’ question for the sentence is; Who is watching the television? Here, we have used ‘who’ because we already have the answer to this question.
Now, let’s examine the given options-
(a) Is Anne watching the television? – It is an incorrect option because we need to frame a question with the help of ‘wh’ words.
(b) Who is watching the television? – It is the correct option because the given sentence accurately answers this question.
(c) Anne is watching the television, isn’t she? – It is an incorrect option because we need to use ‘wh’ words to frame the question.
(d) Anne is watching what? – It is an incorrect option because ‘wh’ words are placed at the beginning.
The correct answer is Option ‘b’.

Note: Always remember that the ‘wh’ words are placed before the verbs in a sentence. Also, ‘who’ is used to ask questions about the subject of the sentence.