It seems simple enough to show how the six interrogatory words relate to one another and are often interdependent and even interchangeable.
It’s easy to see that they’re not only similar and related but can even represent a way to form one single big question.
There are two kinds of questions, open and closed.
Closed questions expect “Yes” or “No” answers.
(“I dunno” is a response, but not an answer.)
Open questions, even rhetorical questions, use the six interrogatories, has a left orientation (in English), and cannot be adequately answered with yes or no.
Questions are tools. As my auto mechanic-cousin, Bobby used to tell me, “When in doubt, use the right tool.” Like math, we don’t use addition when multiplication will get us the answer faster. If speed is the goal. The goal determines the “best” form of the question.
There are many ways to ask a question and dozens of ways to shape the same question with even more subtleties and nuances in the intent as expressed.
We do sometimes confuse “Type” with “Form.” Questions can be formed or shaped or expressed in many different ways and, often not even in the form of a question. Like, “Please, tell me about your feelings …” a request, rather than a…
