Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / April 2004

Your rubric suggests you should be able to work out the word order of a
basic wh- question for yourself, even with the preposition banged on the
front.  All of these are totally non-communicative - in other words, a
native speaker wouldn't use any of them.  In the extrordinary
circumstances of having to identify said hill down which said infant
rolled, you'd say "Which hill did the child roll down?"

At a push, 2,5 and 6 are at least grammatical, so let's go with 'marginal'
for them, 'unacceptable' for the rest.

If this is an exercise from a text book, throw it away.

DC

Hi.

All the sentences are pretty akward, but grammatically all seem correct to
me.

Kamil