What color is this pen? How to answer?

Blue or black.

What are special interrogative words? Can't guide general interrogative sentences

What is an interrogative pronoun, meaning "what", which is often used to ask about items, names, telephone numbers, occupations, etc. What is placed at the beginning of a sentence to form a special question with the subject of what+ verb be+. The answer should be aimed at special interrogative words, which are different from ordinary interrogative words and cannot be answered with "yes" or "no".

1. What+verb+someone/something?

1, ask "what is it"

What is that? This is an eraser.

What is that? That's an eraser.

How to say it in English? This is an orange.

How to say it in English? This is an orange.

Step 2 ask your name

What's your name? What's your name?

My name is Amy. My name is Amy.

Step 3 ask about occupation

What is he? What does he do?

He is a doctor. He is a doctor.

Step 4 ask about the situation

What happened?

What happened? (mostly used to show sympathy and concern)

Is there any trouble?

Is there any trouble?

5. Ask your favorite

What's your favorite fruit? What's your favorite fruit?

My favorite fruit is strawberry. I like strawberries best.

Step 6 ask for a phone number

What's Amy's phone number?

What's Amy's phone number?

7, ask the date

What's the date today? What's the date today?

Today is 1 month1st. Today is 65438+ 10 month 1.

8. Asking about the weather

What's the weather like in Beijing in winter? What's the weather like in Beijing in winter?

It is cold and windy.

9. Ask about the surgical results.

What's ten plus seven? It's seventeen o'clock.

What's ten plus seven? Seventeen.

10, asking about the appearance characteristics.

What does she look like? What does she look like?

She is tall and thin. She is tall and thin.

Note: like here is a preposition, which means "like" or "like …". Can be used to ask the other person to describe the characteristics of someone/something or give his own opinion. What does she look like?