The 6 basic question words in English

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5W1H (who, what, where, when, why, how) is a method of asking questions about a process or a problem taken up for improvement.

Four of the W’s (who, what, where, when) and the one H is used to comprehend for details, analyze inferences and judgment to get to the fundamental facts and guide statements to get to the abstraction.

The last W (why) is often asked five times so that one can drill down to get to the core of a problem.

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