Subject Questions

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Definition

Subject questions ask about who or what is doing the action. In subject questions, the question word is used as the subject of the verb.

The 3 elements to form subject questions are:

  1. A question word is acting as the subject.

  2. The verb is the action.

  3. The object is additional information, added when necessary.

Subject question form.

The question words used in subject questions are:

Question
word

Asking about

 

Who

people

What

things & actions

These questions words can be conbined
with a noun to form more specific question words.

See examples below.

Which

choice

Whose

possession

Examples

Question
word

verb

object

Who

said

that?

Who

is working

tonight?

What

happened?

*

What

is going

on?

Question
word

noun
add-on

verb

object

What

colours

match

my eyes?

Which

computer

works

better?

Whose

idea

helps

the most?

*Object unnecessary for the question.

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