Question words What + noun We often use the question word what + noun as a question word: what time, what colour, what size, etc. How + adjective/adverb We can also use how + adjective/adverb as a question word in phrases like how often, how old, how tall, etc. Word order The order of words in an English question in present simple is: QWASI: (Question Word) + Auxiliary + Subject + Infinitive. In Yes-No questions (questions that we answer saying yes or no) there is NO Question Word. The auxiliary verb in present simple is be or do/does. Below you can see a grammar chart on the order of words in present simple questions with be or do/does. Questions with am/is/are When the verb in the sentence is be, we use am/is/are as the auxiliary verb before the subject. Then the word order is QWAS: (Question Word) + Auxiliary (am/is/are) + Subject Questions with do/does When we have a verb that is not be, we use do/does as the auxiliary verb.
We use does with he/she/it and do with I/you/we/they.