Question words

Question words in English

Question words with examples

Nearly all question words in English start with the same two letters – WH. That's why questions with question words are also called WH-questions.

Question word	Example
where	Where do you live?
who	Who are you?*
	Who did you phone?**
when	When do you get up?
what	What is this?*
	What are you doing?**
why	Why do you smoke?
whose	Whose book is this?
which	Which bus do you take to school?
how	How old are you?

* This is a subject question.

** This is an object question.