This ultimate guide gives you a detailed look at differences and examples of ‘what’ vs ‘Which’ and how they are used to avoid confusion.
We are most of the times confused on whether to use which or what ?. Therefore we have got this article to clear our concepts.
So let us start our discussion of two commonly confused English usage What and Which. And see the correct usage along with example sentences.
Let’s see one examples before starting.
Example 1 : What is this book about ?
Example 2: Which is the good book ?
Both the words ‘Which’ and ‘What’ are usually used to asked questions. Which is used for asking your choice of a object among several objects while What is used to asking about that object, therefore both are used differently which is what we have to see. So, without wasting anymore time let’s discuss how to use these two words correctly.
Examples of ‘What’ in a Sentence
The four-letter word ‘What’ is mostly used to ask more information about a noun ( book, idea, place, thing etc. ). Let’s have a look at 5 examples of sentences using ‘what’ and see how it is used to ask questions.
- What is this ?
- What are you doing ?
- I don’t know what they are talking about ?
- What do you want to know ?
- What do you want from me ?
Examples of ‘Which’ in a Sentence
The four-letter word ‘Which’ is mostly used to ask for a choice of object from several options. Let’s now have a look at 5 examples of sentences using ‘which’ and see how it’s usage differs from the way ‘what’ is used to ask questions.
- To which house I have to go ?
- Which coffee do you want ?
- Which one should I choose ?
- I don’t know which is the fastest car ?
- Which is the right way ?
Now we know that both ‘what’ and ‘which’ are used to ask different type of questions.
Try replacing these two words with one another and you’ll see that sentences will have a different meaning. Though you can in some cases replace which with what and it will be okay.
Example : Which cookie do you want for breakfast ?
Example using ‘What’ : What cookie do you want for breakfast ?
Let us see a sentence using ‘Which’ and ‘What’ together.
Example : What do you want from this which you cannot get from workout ?
So don’t get hung up on whether or not you should use ‘which’ or ‘what’, just remember the above mentioned key points and their meaning, and you’ll be good.