WH - QUESTION WORDS

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Formation of wh-questions in English is complex. Wh-questions seek specific information;and, because of the variety inherent in what specific information can be queried with wh-questsions, their formation is not grammatically universal; some wh-questions require subject verb inversion while others do not. For this variety and the grammatical complexity it implies, wh-questions are often difficult for English language learners to master. At the same time, the usefulness of wh-questions in acquiring new information and therefore expanding communicative competence in English makes it important for language learners to be able from an early stage of language development (Celce Murcia & Larsen-Freeman, 1999, cited by Nathan Fellman at Teaching Wh-questions to English Language Learners: A Review of current research withpractical suggestions)