Greetings:
The format is that the teacher gives you the answer and you have to write the appropriate question:
Example #1:
Answer: “He eats in the cafeteria every day.” If the important part of the answer is “in the cafeteria” then the question should be:
Q: “Where does he eat every day?” Please note that this question has the required helping (i.e., does) and main (i.e. eat) verbs necessary in English grammar.
However, please now look at this answer and question:
Example #2:
Barak cooks hamburgers in the kitchen every weekend. If the important part of the answer is “Barak”, then the question should be:
Q: “Who cooks hamburgers in the kitchen every weekend?” However, this question doesn’t have a helping verb. It only has a main verb (i.e., cooks). Other wh- questions have helping and main verbs (e.g., Q: Why do you study every day? A: Because I want to pass this course.) but questions with “who” don’t have helping and main verbs. I find this confusing. Could someone please explain the grammar involved here as clearly as possible because I want to understand this grammar as completely as possible.
That’s it for now and I look forward to reading your responses.
Answers & Comments
Verified answer
When the 'wh-' word is the subject of the sentence, it is placed directly before the verb and no auxiliary verb is used.
Who cooks dinner tonight?
Which works best?
What happened to the hamburger?
If the 'wh-' word is the object, the auxiliary is used:
Whom did he tell?
Which did he choose?
What did he do?
And 'Who cooks dinner tonight?' is a perfectly good sentence. In English, the present tense is used for future action whan a time definite is stated.
The train arrives at 8:05 P.M.
He flies home next Friday.
Who cooks dinner tonight?
Grammar is not a universally accepted thing. You could very well have studied proper grammar from one school of thought, and then tested it in another. There are several different nuances, and trends constantly emerging in "grammar." Agencies like the MLA do their best to create a standard, but it constantly evolves. And it's been evolving faster since the rise of the internet than it ever has before. If you get a copy of the Little Brown Handbook (just one example) from ten years ago and compare it to the most recent edition, they'll be vastly different on multiple counts. Even comparing one style guide to another published in the same year will show tremendous inconsistencies. This is one of the reasons college professors dictate the style papers need to be written in, so there is a known grammatical and formatting standard. You could very well have a better understanding of grammar now then you did, and just did worse on the test. You may also have done some subconscious sabotage to prove one of your own theories. There are a variety of explanations for why you did worse on the test, the least likely of which is that you studied grammar.
The sentence doesn't work, grammatically. The simple present (cooks) is for a habitual or repeated action. So you can say "Who cooks dinner every night?" But if it's for a future event, this one night, you have to use an expression of future time- "Who is cooking dinner tonight?" if you're just asking about the plans, or "Who will cook dinner tonight?" if you're making a request for someone to cook dinner?
The reason there's no helping "do" in a question like "Who cooks dinner every night?" is that the question word "who" is a pronoun replacing the subject of the verb. "Someone cooks dinner. Who cooks dinner?"
In your other example, "Where does he eat every day?" the question word "where" is replacing the the complement of the verb, and there is another subject- "he". "He eats somewhere every day. He eats where every day. Where does he eat every day?"
The "do" or "does" or "did" comes between the question word and the subject. If there's no subject, you don't put in the helper.
Hi
May I add to your confusion,
for
A. Barak cooks hamburgers in the kitchen every weekend.
Q. Who does the cooking every weekend?
As you stated 'Barak' is the important part of the answer therefore you can omit 'hamburgers' in the question.
Should you need to add hamburgers, although it does sound clumsy, you could ask.
Q. Who does the cooking of the hamburgers every weekend?
while seeing your topic i think it very easy but when i show details i was flat its toooo long question i don't go thoroughly