Omkar N.
Wakhlu & Bharat Wakhlu
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Chapter 13
Question Sentences
More examples of the usage of
above words are given below. Read the sentences aloud many times until these
sentences become part of your instant speech.
| 1. What is
your name? |
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| 2. What is
this city called? |
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| 3. What is the
day? |
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| 4. What time
do you leave? |
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| 5. What time
is he coming? |
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| 6. What a
beautiful day! |
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| 7. What lovely
flowers! |
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| 8. What a
pretty girl! |
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| 9. What a nice
mosque! |
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| 10. What a
nice temple! |
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| 11. For whom
is it? |
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| 12. With whom
do they go? |
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| 13. Where do
you live? |
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| 14. How much
time do you take? |
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| 15. What time
do they return? |
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| 16. Why not? |
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| 17. Why don't
you come? |
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| 18. Why is he
shy? |
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| 19. Why did
you take so much trouble? |
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You should carefully remember
the inflection of question words with the gender and number of the noun referred
to. In English the words "what" "where" "whom"
etc. remain the same irrespective of number and gender. This is shown below:
Notice also in the following
few sentences how 
and  are both
used for "how many". The word
seeks precise numbers while the word
seeks a broad idea of the numbers. Also see the nuances of the word 
(how much) in the following few sentences:
| How many
books are here? |
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| These are five
books. |
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| How many books
are here? |
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| These are not
many books. |
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| How far away
is this village? |
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| How many miles
is that place from here? |
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| How many
kilometers did you say? |
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| How many
chairs are here? |
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