Qui est là?--Qui avez-vous Who is there?--Whom did you
vu?--Avec qui parlez-vous? see?--With whom are you speaking?
De qui est-elle la fille? Whose daughter is she?
À qui est cette maison? Whose house is this?
Devinez qui j'ai vu. Guess whom I saw.
Qu'avez-vous vu?--Que What did you see?--What's to be
faire?--Qu'en pensez-vous? done?--What do you think of it?
De quoi parlez-vous?--À quoi What are you talking about?--What
pensez-vous? are you thinking about?
Savez-vous ce que Do you know what it
c'est?--Quoi?--Devinez quoi. is?--What?--Guess what.
Je ne sais que dire ni que faire. I don't know what to say nor do.
Laquelle de ces plumes est la Which of these pens is yours?
vôtre? Auquel de vos amis To which of your friends are you
écrivez-vous? Duquel writing? Of which one are you
parlez-vous? speaking?
Qui est-ce qui (or) qui. Who (subject).
Qui est-ce que (or) qui. Whom (object).
Qu'est-ce qui (only). What (subject).
Qu'est-ce que (or) que. What (object).
Qu'est-ce que la grammaire? (or) What is grammar?
Qu'est-ce que c'est que la
grammaire?
Qu'est-ce? (simple question) \
Qu'est-ce que c'est? (emphatic) | What is it?
Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela? /
(more insistent)
Quel livre avez-vous?--Quelle What book have you?--What
plume?--Je ne sais quelle idée pen?--I don't know what idea
lui est venue.--Quel homme! has struck him.--What
_a_ man!
C'est un beau pays _que_ France is a beautiful country.
la France.
Je ne le connais pas. I do not know him (acquaintance).
Il joue _de_ la guitarre. He plays the guitar.
Savez-vous jouer _aux_ Do you _know how_ to play
cartes? cards?
A. 1. Who sent you that letter? 2. Which of the letters did you
mail? 3. Do you know to whom it was addressed? 4. Whose valet
is he? 5. What did you find on the desk? 6. What was[1] it that
the carter said to the culprit? 7. Did he know who had forged
the signature? 8. What[2] was the patient's occupation? 9. What!
He is gone? I don't know what to think of[3] it.[3] 10. Who is
playing cards in that room? 11. I don't know what[4] I was thinking
of.[5] 12. Whose[6] is this violin? 13. It is mine, what are you
going to do with[3] it?[3] 14. Whom do you wish to see?--M.
Blanc.--Which one,[7] the father or the son? 15. It is a difficult
thing[8] to learn to write well. 16. Does she know how[7] to play
the piano? 17. Don't you know what a forger is?[9] 18. I have
no[10] use for[11] your advice. 19. "Oh ! A[12] fine thing it[7]
is[7] to[8] know something!" says M. Jourdain in the "Bourgeois
Gentilhomme" of Molière. 20. Did the doctor know what instrument
he played? 21. The king did not know which country to attack
first.[13] 22. Do you see that object? What is it? 23. If I knew
him well, I would invite him.
[Footnotes 1: _present._ 2: _adjective._ 3: en. 4: quoi. 5: à;
_what order?_ 6: _possession._ 7: _omit._ 8: _emphatic inversion;
supply_ que. 9: "_what it is that a forger_." 10: _omit_ pas.
11: que faire de. 12: _definite article._ 13: _supply definite
article._]
B. Make a list of interrogative words (adverbs, etc.) not included
in examples above and illustrate their use in questions and
exclamations.