Study sheet: English Question Forms

📋 Course Outline

1. Interrogative Words and Meanings
2. Open and Closed Questions

📖 1. Interrogative Words and Meanings

📝 Essential Points

• These interrogative words ask about:

  • an object with What
  • an uncountable quantity with How much
  • a person with Who
  • a manner with How
  • a countable quantity with How many
  • a duration with How long
  • a choice with Which

• These interrogative words ask about:

  • frequency with How often
  • possession with Whose
  • a reason with Why
  • a place with Where
  • age with How old
  • a moment with When

📖 2. Open and Closed Questions

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Open question : allows the respondent to develop the answer and add a detail, and it begins with an interrogative word
• Closed question : is answered by yes or no and begins with an auxiliary or a modal

📝 Essential Points

📌 An open question follows the structure interrogative word + conjugated auxiliary + subject + verb + complement + question mark.

💡 Memory Hook

Open questions develop an answer, whereas closed questions accept yes or no.

📊 Synthesis Tables

Open and Closed Questions

Question type	Answer	Beginning	Structure
Open question	Developed answer with a detail	Interrogative word	Interrogative word + conjugated auxiliary + subject + verb + complement + ?
Closed question	Yes or no	Auxiliary or modal	Conjugated auxiliary + subject + verb + complement + ?