Questions with What: Guide & Examples

Questions with what are pretty common, they are part of every conversation, they could be simple or complex.

Questions with what can be made with different tenses in English such as the past and present continuous

These are some example of questions with what:

1. What time is it?
2. What’s for dinner?
3. What’s your favorite color?
4. What’s your phone number?
5. What’s the weather like today?
6. What’s the capital of France?

Let’s check all you need to know to make questions with what correctly

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Personal Information Questions with What

These are examples of questions with what that you can use to understand the structure of such questions and as discussion questions in the classroom

1. What’s your name?
2. What do you do for a living?
3. what kind of music do you like?
4. What kind of movies do you like?
5. What school did you go to?
6. What do you study in college?
7. What’s your best friend’s name?
8. What’s your email address?
9. What’s your phone number?
10. What street do you live on?

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Questions with What and the Present Continuous

This is the structure of present continuous questions with “what”

Estructura	Ejemplo
What	What
Verbo to Be	are
Sujeto	you
Verb +Ing	doing?

These are some examples of questions with what and the present continuous tense

1. What are you watching?
2. What are you listening to?
3. What are you playing?
4. What are you doing now?
5. What are you going to do this weekend?
6. What’s she doing now?
7. What are you talking about?
8. What are you discussing?
9. What are they thinking?
10. What video game are they playing?
11. What are you trying to do?
12. What are you reading?
13. What are you cooking?
14. What are you learning?
15. What are you studying?

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Questions with What and the Past Simple

This is the structure of present continuous questions with “what”

Estructura	Ejemplo
What	What
Did	did
Sujeto	you
Verb	do

These are some examples of questions with what and the past simple

1. What did you do yesterday?
2. What did you do last night?
3. What time did you wake up today?
4. What did you have for breakfast?
5. What did you study for the test?
6.  What did you bring for lunch?
7. What did you do after school?
8. What did you buy from the supermarket?
9. What did you watch last night?
10. What did you eat yesterday?
11. What did you find on the website?
12. What did you do with the homework?
13. What time did you get home last night?
14. What time did they go home?
15. What did you ask?

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Questions with What and the Past Continuous

These are some examples of questions with what and the past continuous tense

1. What were they talking about when I called?
2. What were you doing at the time of the accident?
3. What were you doing when I entered the room?
4. What was she looking at?
5. What were they reading?
6. What were they doing when we got here?
7. What were you doing when I called?
8. What was he fixing when you called him?
9. What were the twins doing while we watched TV?
10. What were you cooking?
11. What were they watching when the movie started?
12. What were they playing when we arrived?

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Questions with What and the Future with Will

These are some examples of questions with what and the past continuous tense

1. What will you do about it?
2. What will you do if he shows up here?
3. What will you do if we go through an economic depression?
4. What will you do if he shows up here?
5. What will we use as an excuse to visit them?
6. What will you do tomorrow?
7. What will the weather be like next weekend?
8. What will you eat for lunch next Tuesday?
9. What will you wear to the party next month?

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Question with What and Answers

These are some questions with what with their answers

• What were they reading?
• They were reading some old books

• What were you cooking?
• They were making past

• What time did you get home last night?
• I got around 3:00 AM in the morning

• What were you doing?
• I was watching Rick and Morty

• What are you talking about?
• About the problems we had with a gang

• What were they reading?
• They were reading the Tokyo revengers manga

• What did you buy from the Supermarket?
• I bought a couple of drinks

• What were you cooking?
• I was cooking some pasta

• What did you do last night?
• I went to the clothing store

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