INTERROGATI

VE PRONOUNS
How to use Interrogative
Pronouns?
 We use Interrogative Pronouns to
ask a question.

 Interrogative Pronouns are:

- what
- which
- who
- whom
- whose
Using ‘what’

 WHAT can be used to ask about

objects or people.

Examples:
What time is it?
What is that?
What is your name?
Using ‘what’

Examples:
 What time is it?

- The word ‘what’ refers to the time.

 What is that?
- The word ‘what’ refers to an object.

 What is your name?

- The word ‘what’ refers to the name.
Using ‘which’

 WHICH can also be used to ask

about objects or people. We use
‘which’ when a choice is given.

For example, among many boys, we

ask a person which one of the boys
is his/her brother:
Which is your brother?
Using ‘which’
Examples:
 Which shirt do you like?

- The person who answers has to

choose a shirt that he/ she likes
among many shirts.

 Which is your mother?

- The person who answers has to
point to a woman among many
women to identify his/her mother.
Using ‘who’

 WHO can be used to ask about

people.

Examples:
Who are you?
Who ate my apple?
Who sat on my chair?
Using ‘who’

Examples:
 Who are you?

- The word ‘who’ refers to a person.

 Who ate my apple?

- The word ‘who’ refers to the person

who ate the apple.
 Who sat on my chair?

- The word ‘who’ refers to the person

who sat on the chair.
Using ‘whom’
 WHOM is used to ask about people
and is more formal than ‘who’.
 ‘Whom’ is also known as the

objective form of ‘who’.

 When ‘who’ is the object of a verb,

we have to use ‘whom’ in the

sentence.

Examples:
(object of (verb)
Whom did
verb) you see at the
Using ‘whom’

Examples:
 Whom did you see at the fair?

- The word ‘whom’ is an object of the

verb ‘see’ and refers to the person
seen.

 Whom did you send the letter

to?
- The word ‘whom’ is an object of the
verb ‘send’ and refers to the person
Using ‘whose’

 WHOSE is used to ask for a

relation. We used ‘whose’ to show
the relation between an object and a
person.

Examples:
Whose pen is this?
Whose phone did you use?
Whose jacket is that?
Using ‘whose’
Examples:
 Whose pen is this?

- The word ‘whose’ refers to person

who owns the pen.
 Whose phone did you use?

- The word ‘whose’ refers to person

who owns the phone.
 Whose jacket is that?

- The word ‘whose’ refers to person

who owns the jacket.
End of presentation