Interrogatives Worksheets
About Our Interrogatives Worksheets
Interrogatives are the drivers of curiosity-the words and sentence forms that invite conversation, exploration, and clarity. When students ask "What is that?", "When are we leaving?", or "Can you help me?", they're wielding grammar to connect, clarify, and discover. These worksheets help learners craft questions accurately, from simple inquiries to more complex constructions, making asking seamless and purposeful.
Why does mastering interrogatives matter? Because asking clear, well-formed questions is a foundational communication skill-whether in conversation, research, or creative writing. From crafting "Where is my pencil?" to deciding between yes/no and wh- questions, students gain the ability to seek information effectively. Each PDF comes with an answer key, making lessons easy to teach, track, and reinforce.
This collection guides students through forming interrogatives, choosing between statement or question forms, organizing words, and punctuating correctly. With engaging titles like Ask Away, Question Jumble, and Picture Queries, learners explore question-making in contexts that feel authentic-not forced. By the end, they won't just ask questions-they'll shape how they're heard.
A Look At Each Worksheet
Ask Away
Students practice formulating a variety of questions-both yes/no and wh- types-based on given prompts or situations. It's conversational grammar built into real-life curiosity. By the end, question-making feels natural, not staged.
Bubble Questions
Speech bubbles give characters statements, and learners must convert them into questions-transforming what's said into what's asked. It's dialogue turned into inquiry, making grammar interactive and dynamic.
Declarative vs. Interrogative
This worksheet challenges students to change declarative sentences into questions, and vice versa. It's about understanding tone and structure-statement vs. question. The shift trains both grammar awareness and control.
Imperative Interrogations
Learners convert commands like "Sit down!" into polite questions like "Could you sit down?" It teaches how tone and structure shift meaning and intention. This is grammar diplomacy at its best.
Inquiry Themes
Themed prompts-like food, school, or games-encourage question writing within topics, building focused practice. It's curiosity shaped by subject matter. Students ask with direction, not confusion.
Picture Prompts
An image sets the scene, and students write questions about it ("What is the cat looking at?"). It blends observation with question form. Visual cues spark real questions.
Picture Queries
Another form of visual inspiration, prompting deeper or more imaginative inquiries ("Why are they running?" "Where might they be going?"). It trains question variety and context awareness.
Punctuation Practice
Focused drills on putting question marks where they belong-and distinguishing them from exclamation or period endings. Tiny marks, big clarity gains.
Question Jumble
Word jumbles challenge students to reorder scrambled words into correctly punctuated questions. It's puzzle-solving meets grammar precision-fun meets function.
Question Quest
This mini-quest sends students on a mission to write questions about a scenario, story, or prompt, encouraging variety and engagement. It's grammar adventuring in question form.
What Are Interrogatives?
Interrogatives are question forms used to request information, express curiosity, or prompt engagement. They typically begin with wh-words like who, what, when, where, why, how-or use auxiliary verbs like do, can, and will for yes/no questions ("Do you like ice cream?").
In English, forming an effective interrogative often requires word-order inversion-swapping subject and auxiliary ("She is going" becomes "Is she going?")-or beginning with a wh-word followed by the inverted clause ("Where are you going?"). The structure signals to the listener or reader that an answer is expected.
Mastering interrogatives isn't just grammar-it's power-building. It lets students engage actively, probe deeply, and write narratives that feel alive ("Why did the dragon roar?"). Strong questioning skills support conversations, research, storytelling, and critical thinking.
Common Mistakes with Interrogatives
Sentence - "You are coming?"
Corrected Sentence - "Are you coming?"
Why Is That Correct? - Interrogative structure requires inversion: the auxiliary verb precedes the subject. This switch turns the statement into a natural question.
Sentence - "Where you are going?"
Corrected Sentence - "Where are you going?"
Why Is That Correct? - With wh- questions, word order still follows inversion rules: auxiliary verb ("are") must directly follow the wh-word. Correcting this restores question flow.
Sentence - "Do she like pizza?"
Corrected Sentence - "Does she like pizza?"
Why Is That Correct? - When forming a yes/no question in the third person, we use "does" instead of "do," and the main verb stays in its base form. This aligns with subject-verb agreement and question structure.