Subject v object questions

Object questions
1. We use do / does in present simple questions:
Ex. Who do you know?
Where does he live?
2. We use did in past simple questions:
Ex. Who did you call?
What did he give you for your birthday?

3. We change the word order when using the auxiliary

verbs (be, have in present perfect, modal verbs):
Ex. When was the car washed?

Compare:
Object questions

Subject questions

Who did you send the

letter to?

Who sent you the letter?

Who is she talking to?

Who is talking to her?

(She is talking to
somebody.)

(Somebody is talking to
her.)

Subject questions
Sometimes happens that the question words Who?

What? Which? How many? are the subject of the

clause
Then we do not use do, does, or did in questions
The verb is in the 3rd person singular of the particular
tense
Ex. Who hit you?
What happens next?

A vicious love circle

Amanda loves Scott, but
Scott loves Sophie.
Sophie loves Jerry, but
Jerry doesnt like her. He
likes Kathy.

Amanda

Joe

Scott

Kathy
Sophie
Jerry

Kathy is madly in love with

Joe, but Joe thinks only of
Amanda.
Who loves Amanda?

Joe

Who does Sophie love?

Jerry

Who loves Sophie?

Scott

Who does Kathy love?

Joe

Who loves Scott?

Amanda

Are the questions subject or object

questions?
1. What did she say?

Object

2. Who shouted my name?

Subject

3. What did Kate hear?

4. Who did you meet?
5. Who saw them in the shop?
6. What made that noise?
7. Who did it?
8. Which bus did you take?

Object
Object
Subject
Subject
Subject
Object

Correct the mistakes in the sentences.

1. What did she heard?
2. Why she did called?
3. Who the money stole?
4. Who break into the office?
5. What the police do?
6. Who did commit the crime?
7. What did happen here?
8. Which class went you to?

What did she hear?

Why did she call?

Who stole the money?

Who broke into the office?

What did the police do?

Who committed the crime?

What happened here?

Which class did
you go to?

Make questions
Somebody smoked here.

Who smoked here?

She told me something

What did she tell you?

interesting.
I still worry about it.
Somebody wants to talk to you.
Something terrible is going to
happen to us!
I dropped something!
Somebody is making terrible
noise in here.
I spoke to somebody on the
phone.

What do you worry about?

Who wants to talk to me?

What is going to happen to

us?
What did you drop?
Who is making the terrible
noise in here?
Who did you speak to?

Question time
1. Who was the last person you spoke to before going to
school?
2. Who gave you the best present you have ever got?
3. Who sang at Lady Dianas funeral?
4. What happened to you on your way to school?
5. Which bus takes you home?
6. What sight disappointed you after you saw it?
7. Who wrote you a very long e-mail?
8. Which computer game is awful?

Put the following words in order, you might need

to add something.
1. him/invited/who/dinner/to/
Who invited him to dinner?
Which CD did you buy?
2. which/you/CD/buy
3. who/asking/question/the/is Who is asking the question?
4. he/who/visit/last week/ Who did he visit last week?
5. car/will/first/which/arrive Which car will arrive first?
What food do you like?
6. what/you/food/like
7. to/bar/you/go/which/want to/ Which bar do you want to
go to?
8. computer/is/the/fixing/who
Who is fixing the
computer?
9.the/what/tell/doctor/you
What did the doctor tell you?