Question types

Question Types in English
There are a number of question types in English :
Yes-No Questions
Wh-Questions
Tag questions
Choice Questions
Hypothetical Questions
Leading questions
Yes / No questions
Most of them start with an auxiliary verb and expect an answer Yes or No:
Do you like your new teacher?
Can you help me ?
Have you ever been here before?
Note: you can ask a yes / no question using the verb "to be" as a full verb (not an auxiliary) as well.
Are you from Iraq?
Wh-Questions
As you can understand from its name, most of them start with a question word such as:
What / Where / Why / Who / Whose / When / Which
What is your name ?
When did you come?
Who is your teacher ?
Whose book is this?
Note: there are other question words that don’t start with "wh" as well.
How / how many / how often / how far / how much / how long / how old etc.
How are you?
How old are you ?
How much is it?
Tail Questions
You love her, don’t you ?
She has seen it, hasn t she?
Nobody knew the answer, did they ?
Let’s go, shall we?
Choice Questions
We use choice questions when we offer choices .
Would you like a house or a flat ?
Do you go with your family or alone ?
Hypothetical Questions
We ask hypothetical questions to have a general idea of a certain situation (like a questionnaire).
What would you do if you won the lottery?
Would you leave your country and your relatives behind to study abroad ?
If you had a superpower, what would it be?
Embedded questions (indirect questions )
We use them in reported speech or in polite questions.
She asked me if she could borrow my dictionary .
She asked me where the nearest train station was .
Note: notice that the word order is affirmative .
Leading questions
We ask leading questions when we want to get the answer we desire.
What do you think of the terrible side effects of drugs?
Were you with your family at the time of the crime ?