An interrogative pronoun is used for asking questions.
What is your name? What is hidden under the picture? (‘What’ is used for indicating the non-living.) Which is Shyam’s house? Which of these boys is the culprit? (‘Which’ is used for indicating both the living and the non-living.) Who are those people? Who wants to go to the circus? (‘Who’ is used for indicating humans.) Whom are you talking to? Whom do you wish to see? (‘Whom’ is used for indicating humans.) |
When ‘what’ and ‘which’ are used with some noun to ask a question, they are called interrogative adjectives.
What kind of organism is it? Which shirt do you want to wear? |
[Remember: A noun does not immediately follow an interrogative pronoun, while an interrogative adjective always comes before a noun.] |
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