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I extracted this from L.R.H Chapman grammar two book.

An example was given like this :

Question : Who did jack meet at the station?

Answer : Jack met his uncle at the station

I am not sure whether is it correct to make every question like the example format given above.

Is this sentence correct?

Question : who did the rich woman pay yesterday?
Answer : The rich woman paid her servants yesterday.

I assume that the correct sentence would be "To whom did the rich woman pay yesterday?"

Here are the sentences for questions to be made :

  1. The rich woman paid her servants yesterday.
  2. I saw a lot of soldiers outside the palace.
  3. The angry man hit the boy.
  4. Mary wrote a letter to her aunt.
  5. The teacher helped the weak pupil.
  6. The old man knew everybody in the village.
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  • One would hope that the book capitalizes "Jack". – Hot Licks Aug 24 '15 at 12:54
  • All of these sentences are in the past tense. Therefore there is no auxiliary verb and non-subject wh-questions must use do-Support. So there are two types: Who did the rich woman pay yesterday?, with an object interrogative; and Who paid the servants yesterday?, with a subject interrogative -- therefore no Subject-Auxiliary Inversion or do-Support is necessary. – John Lawler Aug 24 '15 at 14:45
  • Why do you assume that “To whom did the rich woman pay?” would be the correct question? As your example sentences show, pay does not take to (except optionally if there is both a direct and an indirect object), and the statement is not “The rich woman paid *to her servants”. So why would there be a to in the question form? – Janus Bahs Jacquet Aug 24 '15 at 16:59

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Question : Who did Jack meet at the station?

Answer : Jack met his uncle at the station

I am not sure whether is it correct to make every question like the example format given above.

I am not sure either. The answer to a 'who' question should be a person, i.e.

Question : Who did Jack meet at the station?

Answer : His uncle.

Therefore it is difficult to answer the rest of your question.

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