12c subject and object questions

Subject/Object

QuestionsEF 12 c

Subject Questions: You want to know who/what does something.

Alice

Who ate my chocolate?

Alice did!

Object Questions: You want to know what someone did, or to whom/where/when.

Alice ate my chocolate.

What did Alice eat?

My chocolate.

A subject question asks about the subject of the sentence.Do NOT change the word order of the question.

ANSWER QUESTION

Gina is fixing the car.    Who is fixing the car?

subject

What happened last night?

An accident happened last night.

Who wrote Hamlet? Shakespeare wrote Hamlet.

We can also make SUBJECT QUESTIONS with: • WHAT: What happened? • WHICH: Which journey costs the most? • WHOSE: Whose journey takes two hours?

No auxiliary verb

Question Word Auxiliary Subject VerbWhat are you doing?Where do they live?

Object questions You need an auxiliary verb (do, be, have ...) before the subject, and a main verb (go, make, think ...) after it.

object

What is the waiter bringing?

The waiter is bringing some wine.

subject or object questions:

subject

Who cleans the house every morning?

Jane cleans the house every morning

Jane cleans the house every morning.

object

What does Jane clean every morning?

JOHN MARY

NICKSALLY

1. Who loves John?

2. Who loves Mary?

3. Who does Nick love?

4. Who does Mary love?

5. Who loves Sally?

6. Who does John love?

Sally loves John

John loves Mary.

Nick loves Sally.

Mary loves Nick.

Nick loves Sally.

John loves Mary.

Write subject and object questions: 

What ___________ every day?

Sarah eats chocolate every day.

Who ___________every day?

James met Sam.

Whom ___________ ?

Who ___________?

Jack is writing a letter.Who___________  a letter?What ___________?

Correct the mistakes in the following sentences

What did happen last nigh? Who the painting stole? Who did the house break into? What the police do? Who did go to prison? What the judge said? How long they spent in prison?

Write a question to the underlined words. 

The doctor is working with the nurse.  The doctor told the nurse to draw blood.  The repairman worked on the computer yesterday. 

The woman wrote a long letter.  The teacher gave the student some advice.  The teacher gave the student some advice.  The robber asked for all the money in the cash register.