Content Questions

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Content Questions

• Asking where, when, why, who,
• what, which, whose, how,
• and how about.

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What are content questions?

• We ask content questions to get information.
• Content questions are not yes-no questions.
• Begin content questions with words like who,
  what, how, when and why.

Which part of the math problem
cant the student understand?
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Ask questions with where.

• Where asks about place.
• Where did you live last year?
• __ are you going?
• __ will you work in the future?
• The answer can be short and just the place.
• In Chicago.
• To the mall.
• In a bank.

Which part of the math problem
cant the student understand?
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Ask when and what time.

• When questions ask about time.
• What time asks for clock time.
• __ did you move here? Last year?
• __ can Trisha come over? Tonight?
• __ did you start the exam?
• At 10 oclock.

When bums become rich, where do they live?
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Ask questions about why.

• Why questions ask about the reason.
• The answer often begins with because.
• __ do you learn English?
• __ I want to work a better job.
• __ is Erika taking your car?
• __ her car isnt running.

Why do we drive slowly in rush hour?
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Ask who and whom questions.

• Who asks about a subject of the verb.
• Use whom for the object of the verb.
• __ took my car?
• __ did you meet at the mall?
• __ is there?
• __ used my credit card?

Does the bird know good grammar?
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Ask which questions.

• Which is for a choice between alternatives
• There are two notebooks, so __ do you want?
• I take the smaller.
• __ do you prefer, smoking or non-smoking?
• I prefer non-smoking.

Which persons is the boss worried about?
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Ask whose possession questions.

• Whose asks about possession.
• I never saw that red shirt before. Whose shirt is
  it?
  
• Its my shirt. I bought it last night at the
  discount mall.
  
• Whos is different. It is a contraction of who
  is.
  
• So whos going out today?

Whose car is it, the old mans
or the young womans?
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Ask how questions.

• How asks in what way or to what degree.
• How did you get the sandwich?
• I made it. Do you want one?
• Well, how good is it?
• Really good. Ill make you one.

How many more ornaments can the tree take?
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Ask more how questions.

• How often is about frequency.
• How far asks distance.
• How long is about time.
• How __ do you come here?
• Twice a week.
• How __ is it to New York?
• How __ does it take to fly there?

How often do you think Chuck frequents the bar?
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Ask how about questions.

• Use how about to suggest or to offer.
• The floor is getting pretty dirty.
• How __ cleaning it? OR
• How __ I clean it?
• What about means the same thing.
• Its late. What __ we quit now?

Should the shaky man ask how about my prescript
ion?
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Can you use question words?

• I live in Los Angeles __ do you live?
• I came here last year __ did you come?
• __ are you taking this English class?
• __ is that guy standing over there?
• __ is it from New York to San Diego?
• Thats my watch, but __ is that one?
• We have water and tea __ do you want?
• Its ten oclock __ do you want to go?

About which question words do you still get conf
used?
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Learn these academic words.

• Use obtain, analysis, function, transfer, and
  distribution.
  
• Do you like government cash __?
• What__ do you have in your work?
• How do you __ money from banks?
• How do you __ from one school to another?
• What is your __ of the word success?

Have you learned these words yet?