Asking question with "will".

[Dharminder Singh]

What is the standard format for asking question starting with "will"?

 

[Piscean]

It's the same as for any modal.

 

[Dharminder Singh]

It's the same as for any modal.

Will + Subject + Verb + rest of the sentence.

Am I right? @Piscean

 

[Piscean]

Yes, except when a question word begins the sentence:

Q-word + will + verb + rest of the sentence.

 

[Dharminder Singh]

Yes, except when a question words begins the sentence:

Q-word + will + subject + verb + rest of the sentence.

Does Q-word mean Wh words, such as What, When, Where, Who, etc.? @Piscean

 

[Piscean]

Yes.

 

[emsr2d2]

Does Q-word mean Wh words, such as What, When, Where, Who, etc.? @Piscean

And "How".

 

[Dharminder Singh]

And "How".

Look at the following example sentence.

Who will go with you to Washington?

According to post#4 "will" should be succeeded by subject, but in the above example "will" is succeeded by a verb "go". I'm confused. @Piscean @emsr2d2

 

[Tarheel]

It's a commonly used form. (See below.)

Who is going with you?
How will you get there?
Who is that with her?
How are you doing?
Who is it?
Who is he?
How can I get one?
How is the weather there?
How is she?
How do you know that?
What is that?
What is the question?
What is your name?
What is her name?
What is the reason for that?
Why did you do that?
Is there any news?
When are you going to do it?
What's happening?
Why is that?
How did that happen?
What's in it for me?
When am I getting paid?
When will she get here?
Why is that?
What are you going to do about it?
Who is it?
Why are you doing that?
Why do you want to know?
Why is that?
Who wants to know?
Who is that?
How did you find out?
Who told you that?
What's your secret?
How do you know that?
How did you do that?

 

[Piscean]

According to post#4 "will" should be succeeded by subject, but in the above example "will" is succeeded by a verb "go". I'm confused.

That was a slip, now corrected. Sorry.

 

[Dharminder Singh]

That was a slip, now corrected. Sorry.

Does the example that I've given in post#8 correct grammatically? @emsr2d2 @Piscean

 

[Piscean]

Does Is the example that I've given in post#8 correct grammatically?

It is.

 

[emsr2d2]

Does Is the example that I've given in post space here #8 correct grammatically correct?

Yes.

 

[Dharminder Singh]

It is.

What correction have you done? I'm sorry, I can't see any correction. @Piscean

 

[Piscean]

Try now.

 

[Dharminder Singh]

Try now.

In the following sentence subject comes before verb.

How will you go there?

How would you explain this? I think even you are confused. I'm still not satisfied whether subject comes before verb or verb comes before subject. @Piscean @emsr2d2

 

[emsr2d2]

In the following sentence the subject comes before the verb.

How will you go there?

How would you explain this? I think even you are confused. I'm still not satisfied as to whether the subject comes before the verb or the verb comes before the subject.

No it doesn't. "Will" acts as part of the verb "will go".

When using the future voice, "will" and the bare infinitive are separated by the subject.

How will you go there?
When will he be happy?
What will she do with the letter?
Who will they see at the party?
Why will they take my car?

 

[jutfrank]

a) Who will go with you?
b) Who will you go with?

Both of these sentences are correct but they have different meaning and different structure. In a) Who is the subject of go whereas in b) you is the subject of go. We call sentences of type a) subject questions and those of type b) object questions.

 

[Dharminder Singh]

a) Who will go with you?
b) Who will you go with?

Both of these sentences are correct but they have different meaning and different structure. In a) Who is the subject of go whereas in b) you is the subject of go. We call sentences of type a) subject questions and those of type b) object questions.

So we can say, it's always subject that comes before verb in a question? @jutfrank
And subject changes depending upon the sentence structure as you've explained in post #18.

 

[jutfrank]

So we can say, it's always subject that comes before verb in a question? @jutfrank

No. Only in object questions. Sometimes the question word itself (Who/What) functions as the subject of the sentence, in which case it comes before the verb.

Look:

What happened?

The question word What is the subject and happened is the verb.