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Frame a wh-type question

Frame a wh-type question

Sr.No.	Wh- word	Use
1	What	Noun, Object
2	When	Time
3	Why	Reason
4	Whom	Object
5	How	Manner
6	How far	Distance
7	How long	About time
8	Where	Place

Rule- Above words + Auxiliary verb (to be, to do, to have) + Sub + Main verb + Remaining words.

Sr.No.	Wh- word	Use
1	Whose	Accusative case
2	How many	Countable
3	How much	Uncountable

Rule- Above words + Noun + Auxiliary verb (to be, to do, to have) + Sub + Main verb + Remaining words.

Sr.No.	Wh- word	Use
1	Who	Noun, Person
2	Which	Choice of one

Rule- Above words + Auxiliary verb (to be, to do, to have) + Remaining words.

General Rules-

1) Do not write the underlined words in the question.

 2) Make such question whose answer is the underlined words.

3) If the auxiliary verbs ‘do, does, did’ are used for making question, use the base form of main verbs in the question.  

4) Write ‘wh-word’ in the beginning, interchange the subject and auxiliary verb.

   

e.g.

1) Seema decided to continue a diary.

Ans- What did Seema decide?

2) Sea water contains a lot of salt.

Ans- What does sea water contain?

3) They kill a cat.

Ans- What do they kill?

4) Advertising helps to produce consistency of quality.

Ans- What does advertising help to produce?

5) He decided to hide in his office.

Ans- Where did he decide to hide?

6) She went to Pune yesterday.

Ans- Where did she go yesterday?

7) The bus comes at midnight.

Ans- When does the bus come?

8) Pakistan invaded India in 1983.

Ans- When did Pakistan invade India?

9) Raju kills the tiger because he wants to save his life.

Ans- Why does Raju kill tiger?

10) Seeta failed in the examination as she was ill.

Ans- Why did Seeta fail in the examination?

11) She gave the book to her friend.

Ans- Whom did she give the book?

12) She performs her duty with joy.

Ans- How does she perform her duty?

13) Patanadevi is 18 km away from Chalisgaon.

Ans- How far is Patanadevi from Chalisgaon?

14) Sachin hides his problem for five years.

Ans- How long does Sachin hide his problem?

15) That was Radh’s book.

Ans- Whose book was that?

16) Sanju had two brothers.

Ans- How many brothers did Sanju have?

20) Poonam buys ten kg sugar.

Ans- How much sugar does Poonam buy?

21) Dhoni can make a century.

Ans- Who can make a century?

23) He will choose that way.

Ans- Which way will he choose?

Use of Articles

Use of Articles

1) The Indefinite Articles :

          A and an are called the indefinite articles. They are used only  before the singular verbs.

Uses of article ‘a’:-

1) The article ‘a’ is used any countable singular noun.

e.g. a dog, a lion, a cat, a boy.

2) The singular noun which has the pronunciation like consonant, it takes the article ‘a’.

e.g.  a university, a utility, a unicorn, a European, a unit, a universe, a one –legged doll.

3) The singular noun which shows the profession.

e.g. a farmer, a tailor, a doctor, a teacher

4) Before the singular noun which shows group.

e.g. an elephant is a clever animal.

A coconut tree is very useful.

5) Before the number words or number group words

          e.g. a dozen, a century, a couple, a hundred rupees.

6) With vowel letters, having pronunciation like consonant.

          e.g. a university, a unit, a utility, a European, a unicorn, a useful article, a one rupee note, a one man show.

Uses of article ‘an’

1) The article ‘an’ is used any countable singular noun.

e.g. an apple, an elephant, an orange, an ox.

2) The singular noun which has the pronunciation like vowel, it takes the article ‘an’. (Or With words beginning with vowel sounds.)

e.g. an egg, an elephant, an ink-bottle, an apple, an orange, an umbrella, an ass, an action, an ox, an idiot, an ultimatum, an egg.

3) The singular noun which begins with the consonant but has the pronunciation like vowel; it takes the article ‘an’. (Or words beginning with silent ‘h’.)

e.g. an hour, an honest man, an honour, an heir, an hotel, an historical novel, an M.A., an S.S.C., an M.P.

2) The Indefinite Article - the :

Uses of article ‘the’

1) To denote a particular person or thing or one already mentioned.

e.g.   a) The chain you gave me is lost.

          b) I bring a bag. The bag is really heavy.

          c) We call a boy. The boy gives us information.

2) When a singular noun represents a whole class.

e.g.   a) The king cobra is extremely poisonous.

          b) The cow is a very useful animal.

          c) The earthworm helps the farmers.

3) With superlatives.

          e.g.   a) He is the best student in our class.

          b) This is the densest forest I have ever seen.

4) With names of rivers, seas, gulfs, group of islands, mountains and newspapers etc.

e.g. The Ganges, the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Persian gulf, the British Isles, the Alps, The Times of India, The Indian Express etc.

5) Before a proper noun only when it is qualified by an adjective.

e.g. The Immortal Shakespeare, The great Caesar, The great Maratha.

6) Before names of certain books.

          e.g. The Ramayana, the Vedas, the Puranas, the Mahabharata.

7) Before the ordinals

          e.g. The first, the second, the third etc.

8) To denote the side

e.g. The left, the right.

9)Before the word ‘same’.

          e.g. The same book is here., the same student etc.

10) To give stress to the common name

e.g. This is the place where I want to get off.

          This is the man who brings the news.

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