Question

What Is a 'Wh-'-Clause in English grammar?

Answer 1

consider the sentence given below and examine how it leads to the questions that follow:

they made him president during the last general body meeting to tone up the administration.

1. who made him president?

2. who(m) did they make president?

3. what did they make him?

4. when did they make him president?

all above questions are of the same type.since all of them begin with a 'wh' question word, they are called "wh" questions.these questions ask for the identification of the subject, object, complement or adverbials of the boldface sentence.