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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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what happens when a question word is subject of a question.................

Hi everybody

can someone please help me as i am totaly lost:

what happens when a question word is subject of a question in the present simple? would need a few exaples

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" Can you provide an example of the kind of question you are talking about? Best wishes, Clive

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Hi,

What do you mean, "What happens?"

Can you provide an example of the kind of question you are talking about?

Best wishes, Clive
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What is there?
Who did it?
"Who's on first?" (C)
"What's on second?" (C)
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Here's an example:

What happens when a question word is subject of a question in the present simple?

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CJ: Good Point...

So, maybe the author ment things like:

— What is inside?
— What or Who? — meaning one may expect a living creature there.
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The difference relies mainly in questions.

When a question word is the subject of a sentence it won't need an auxiliar verb to make a question,

eg: Somebody came into the house

Who came into the house?

but when the question word is the object of the sentence it will request an auxiliar in questions.

eg: Joseph saw somebody coming i
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