Question

Read the following conversation.
Ravi: What are you doing?
Mridu: I’m reading a book.
Ravi: Who wrote it?
Mridu: Ruskin Bond.
Ravi: Where did you find it?
Mridu: In the library.

Notice that ‘what’, ‘who’, ‘where’, are question words. Questions that require information begin with question words. Some other question words are ‘when’, ‘why’, ‘which’ and ‘how’. Remember that
‘What’ asks about acting, things, etc.
‘Who’ asks about people.
‘Which’ asks about people and things.
‘Where’ asks about places.
‘When’ asks about time.
‘Why’ asks about reason or purpose.
‘How’ asks about means, manner or degree.
‘Whose’ asks about possessions.

Read the following paragraph and frame questions on the italicized phrases.
Anil is in school. I am in school too. Anil is sitting in the left row. He is reading a book. Anil’s friend is sitting in the second row. He is sharpening his pencil. The teacher is writing on the blackboard. Children are writing in their copybooks. Some children are looking out of the window.

Answer 1

Hint: The above question asks us to make interrogative sentences. A sentence that asks a question is called an interrogative sentence. It is a part of four kinds of sentences, apart from assertive or declarative sentences, imperative sentences and exclamatory sentences.

Complete answer:
A sentence has two main parts - the Subject and the Predicate. The subject must contain a Noun or a Pronoun and the predicate must contain a verb. In English, there are four types of questions: general or yes/no questions, special questions using wh-words, choice questions, and disjunctive or tag/tail questions.

A question should always be followed by a question mark (?).
- Where is Anil?
- Which row is he sitting in?
- What is he doing?
- Which row Anil’s friend is sitting in?
- What is his friend doing?
- Who is writing on the blackboard or what is the teacher doing?
- What are some children doing or who are looking out of the window?

Note: Rules regarding question-making are:
- To ask a question, one must usually use one of the auxiliary verbs like be, do, have or a modal verb such as can, will, may.
- To make a yes/no answer, then the question should start with the auxiliary or modal.
- To make a question asking about more information, one must use what, where, when, why, which, who(m), whose, how along with an auxiliary or modal.
- While asking a question containing a preposition, the preposition is usually put at the end of the question.