In a wh-question, a "gap" is the logical position from which a wh-word or phrase has moved to the beginning of the question. In the wh-questions below, a bullet (•) appears after certain words and ...

English typically uses a strict SUBJECT VERB OBJECT (SVO) word order in simple sentences, as in Students (S) read (V) books (O). This SVO word order becomes altered in many other English sentence ...

a) Advanced learners often automatically invert the subject and auxiliary verb after a WH word clause, as if it were a question. However these WH clauses are the same as normal sentences so the ...