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If the interrogative word is subject or a modifier of it, the order is
usual.
+Examples+.--_Who_ came last evening? _What star_ shines brightest?
+Direction+.--_Write five interrogative sentences, using the first word
below as a subject; the second as a subject and then as a modifier of the
subject; the third as a subject and then as a modifier of the subject_:--
Who, which, what.
If the interrogative word is object complement or attribute complement or a
modifier of either, the order is transposed.
+Examples+.--_Whom_ did you see? _What_ are personal consequences? _Which
course_ will you choose?
+Direction+.--_Write an interrogative sentence with the first word below as
object complement, and another with the second word as attribute
complement. Write four with the third and the fourth as_ _complements, and
four with the third and the fourth as modifiers of the complement_:--
Whom, who, which, what.
If the interrogative word is an adverb, the order is transposed.
+Examples+.--_Why_ is the forum crowded? _Where_ are the flowers, the fair
young flowers?
+Direction+.--_Write five interrogative sentences, using these adverbs_:--
How, when, where, whither, why.
If there is no interrogative word, the subject stands after the verb when
this is simple; after the first word of it when it is compound.


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