Who else is in your family?

[Dharminder Singh]

If we want to ask a person about their family members, is following a legitimate question?

Who else is in your family?

 

[dunchee]

Yes.

 

[PeterCW]

It all depends on the context but the sentence given could easily be considered rather abrupt in BrE. You might ask a young person if they are living "at home" (meaning with their parents in BrE) or if they have siblings. With an older person you might enquire about children.

 

[emsr2d2]

If we I want to ask a person about their family members, is the following a legitimate natural question?

Who else is in your family?

You need to make your question clearer. Are you asking the person which relatives live in the same house as them or are you including family members who live elsewhere?

 

[Dharminder Singh]

You need to make your question clearer. Are you asking the person which relatives live in the same house as them or are you including family members who live elsewhere?

I'm including all the family members. For instance, even if his children are studying at a college, and living in a hostel, I want that he should include his children in answer.

 

[Dharminder Singh]

You need to make your question clearer. Are you asking the person which relatives live in the same house as them or are you including family members who live elsewhere?

I want that person should tell about all of their family members in single answer. For instance, the answer can be: My parents and a younger brother.

 

[emsr2d2]

I'm including all the family members. For instance, even if his children are studying at a college, and living in a hostel, I want that he should include his children in answer.

Wow! In that case, get ready for a long answer. For example, if you asked me that, here's what you'd get:

There's just me at my place, but the rest of my family consists of my mum, my dad and his wife, three aunts, two great-aunts, two uncles, seven cousins, two second cousins, and loads of third cousins. (I also have lots of step-siblings, step-nieces and step-nephews, from my dad's second marriage.) All my family live in the UK except for one of my great-aunts, who lives in Turkey.

You need to be clear on what you mean by "family". Do you mean immediate family (parents and kids) or extended family (siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc)?

 

[Dharminder Singh]

Wow! In that case, get ready for a long answer. For example, if you asked me that, here's what you'd get:

There's just me at my place, but the rest of my family consists of my mum, my dad and his wife, three aunts, two great-aunts, two uncles, seven cousins, two second cousins, and loads of third cousins. (I also have lots of step-siblings, step-nieces and step-nephews, from my dad's second marriage.) All my family live in the UK except for one of my great-aunts, who lives in Turkey.

You need to be clear on what you mean by "family". Do you mean immediate family (parents and kids) or extended family (siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc)?

Okay. That's how you define family in UK. In India, by default it means the people with whom we live in the same house. How can I ask this question if I'm in UK?

 

[emsr2d2]

Okay. That's how you define family in UK. In India, by default it means the people with whom we live in the same house. How can I ask this question if I'm in UK?

Who else lives with you?

 

[Dharminder Singh]

You need to make your question clearer. Are you asking the person which relatives live in the same house as them or are you including family members who live elsewhere?

Why have you used 'which' for 'relatives'?
Don't we use 'which' only for non-living things?

 

[5jj]

Interrogative which can be used for people or things.
Relative which is for things only.