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Open Questions

"I KEEP six honest serving-men

(They taught me all I knew);

Their names are What and Why and When

And How and Where and Who."

Rudyard Kipling - The Elephant's Child

Open questions leave room for a description or opinion, and are more useful in eliciting information.

Open questions are often called Wh.. questions:-

There are eight wh-questions - what, when, where, which, who, whom, whose and why and to this list we usually add howas they are all used to elicit particular kinds of information.

You use what when you are asking for information about something.

You use when to ask about the time that something happened or will happen.

You use where to ask questions about place or position.

You use which when you are asking for information about one of a limited number of things.

You use who or whom when you are asking about someone's identity.

You use whose to ask about possession.

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