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Vincent Teo Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

What is your father

Can I say,

A: What is your father?

B: He is an engineer.

(Do we use "what" instead of any other wh - questions? )
  

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Say instead "What does your father do?"
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Do the native speaker (AmE or British Eng) say like :

A: What is your father?

IS there correct?
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No as Grammar Geek told you. It is wrong, if you are asking about someone's father's job, you can use the following alternatives.

A. What does your father do?

B. What is your father's job?

C. How does your father make a living?

D. how does your father pay the bills?

E. What does your father work?

D. what is your father's profession/occupation?
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Hi,

GG's one is the most common.

I'll add one to the list "What does your father do for a living?"

hrsaneiE. What does your father work?
This sounds odd to me. May I ask you where it is used?
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Oops, that was just a typo. I meant where does your father work?

Sometimes we ask the second question first to get the answer of the question and also the implied first question.

For instance we usually ask people what the time is, we have actually omited the first question which is do you have a watch?

Regards
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he is a higher secondry school teacher.
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Note that the two posts before this are badly punctuated and spelt, and do not answer the OP's question.

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