Subject and object questions with who and what (b)
Who and what can be the subject or the object of a question.
There is no auxiliary verb + inversion in questions in which who / what is the subject of the question:
- Who wants mushroom soup?
- Who helps you normally?
- What usually makes you happy?
- Who books the tickets?
Object questions: note the auxiliary verb and inversion in object questions:
- What did you do on your birthday?
- Who does she recommend?
- What do they advise?
Text B
Highly musical children were sung to more as infants (and before birth) and more encouraged to join in song games as toddlers than less musical ones, long before any musical ability could have been evident. Studies of classical musicians prove that the best ones – the soloists – practised considerably more from childhood onwards than ordinary orchestral players, and this is because their parents were insistent on their putting in the hours from a very young age.
Recent studies made it clear that the best violinists at a music school averaged twice as many hours of practice by the age of 21 compared with the less good ones. The same was true of children selected for entry to specialist music schools, compared with those who were rejected.
Using the verb in capitals, please put the following questions into the present simple tense. Use an auxiliary verb + inversion if the question uses who / what as an object:
1 Who usually to a child? SING
2 Which violinists twice as many hours of practice as less good ones? AVERAGE
3 What many parents a lot of money on? SPEND
4 What studies of classical musicians? PROVE
5 Who on children practising from a young age? INSIST
6 Which of the students who apply for music school places the best chance of getting in? HAVE