The Anatomy of a Sentence
Every English sentence has two key players: the subject — who does the action — and the object — who or what receives it. Identifying these roles is the first step to forming the right question.
Example: Mary ate a lot of rice.
Mary = Subject · rice = Object
Subject
The person or thing doing the action
Object
The person or thing receiving the action
Object Questions: Asking for the Receiver
When the unknown information is the object of the verb, we need an auxiliary verb to form the question correctly.
Identify Object
Add Auxiliary
Form Question
Example: Mary ate a lot of rice → What did Mary eat?
The auxiliary did is required because we are asking about the object.
