WH Question Words We use question words to ask certain types of questions (question word questions). We often refer to them as WH words because they include the letters WH (for example WHy, HoW). Question Word Function Example what asking for information about something What is your name?   asking for repetition or confirmation What? I can't hear you. You did what? what...for asking for a reason, asking why What did you do that for? when asking about time When did he leave? where asking in or at what place or position Where do they live? which asking about choice Which colour do you want? who asking what or which person or people (subject) Who opened the door? whom asking what or which person or people (object) Whom did you see? whose asking about ownership Whose are these keys? Whose turn is it? why asking for reason, asking what...for Why do you say that? why don't making a suggestion Why don't I help you? how asking about manner How does this work?   asking about condition or quality How was your exam? how + adj/adv asking about extent or degree see examples below how far distance How far is Pattaya from Bangkok? how long length (time or space) How long will it take? how many quantity (countable) How many cars are there? how much quantity (uncountable) How much money do you have? how old age How old are you? how come (informal) asking for reason, asking why How come I can't see her?

Active Voice:

Active voice is a grammatical voice common in many of the world's languages. It is the unmarked voice for clauses featuring a transitive verb in nominative–accusative languages, including English and most other Indo-European languages.
Active voice is used in a clause whose subject expresses the agent of the main verb. That is, the subject does the action designated by the verb. A sentence whose agent is marked as grammatical subject is called an active sentence. In contrast, a sentence in which the subject has the role of patient or theme is called a passive sentence, and its verb is expressed in passive voice. Many languages have both an active and a passive voice; this allows for greater flexibility in sentence construction, as either the semantic agent or patient may take the syntactic role of subject.

Examples

In the following examples the active and passive voice are illustrated with pairs of sentences using the same transitive verb.

Language	Active voice	Passive voice
English	The hunter saw the deer.	The deer was seen by the hunter.
French	Brackett a écrit ce livre.　(Brackett wrote this book.)	Ce livre a été écrit par Brackett. (This book was written by Brackett.)
Japanese	犬がかんだ。 (A dog bit [someone].)	犬にかまれた。　(By a dog [I] was bitten.)
German	Der Hund biss den Postboten.　(The dog bit the postman.)	Der Postbote wurde vom Hund gebissen. (The postman was bitten by the dog.)

Passive Voice:

The passive voice is a grammatical construction (specifically, a "voice") in which the subject of a sentence or clause denotes the recipient of the action (the patient) rather than the performer (the agent). In the English language, the English passive voice is formed with an auxiliary verb (usually be or get) plus a participle (usually the past participle) of a transitive verb.
For example, Caesar was stabbed by Brutus uses the passive voice. The subject denotes the person (Caesar) affected by the action of the verb. The counterpart to this in active voice is Brutus stabbed Caesar, in which the subject denotes the doer, or agent, Brutus.

The Olympic Games London 2012:

The 2012 Summer Olympic Games, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad,also known informally as London 2012, is scheduled to take place in London, United Kingdom, from 27 July (when the opening ceremony is held) until 12 August 2012. The first event, the group stages in women's football, began two days earlier on 25 July. Over 10,000 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) are expected to participate.

Following a bid headed by former Olympic champion Sebastian Coe and the then Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, London was selected as the host city on 6 July 2005 during the117th IOC Session in Singapore, defeating bids from Moscow, New York City, Madrid andParis. London will become the first city to officially host the modern Olympic Gamesthree times, having previously done so in 1908 and in 1948.

Construction in preparation for the Games has involved considerable redevelopment, particularly themed towards sustainability The main focus of this is a new 200 hectareOlympic Park, constructed on a former industrial site at Stratford in the east of London. The Games also make use of many venues which were already in place before the bid.

History:

According to legend, the ancient Olympic Games were founded by Heracles (the Roman Hercules), a son of Zeus. Yet the first Olympic Games for which we still have written records were held in 776 BCE (though it is generally believed that the Games had been going on for many years already). At this Olympic Games, a naked runner, Coroebus (a cook from Elis), won the sole event at the Olympics, the stade - a run of approximately 192 meters (210 yards). This made Coroebus the very first Olympic champion in history.

The ancient Olympic Games grew and continued to be played every four years for nearly 1200 years. In 393 CE, the Roman emperor Theodosius I, a Christian, abolished the Games because of their pagan influences.

Approximately 1500 years later, a young Frenchmen named Pierre de Coubertin began their revival. Coubertin is now known as le Rénovateur. Coubertin was a French aristocrat born on January 1, 1863. He was only seven years old when France was overrun by the Germans during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Some believe that Coubertin attributed the defeat of France not to its military skills but rather to the French soldiers' lack of vigor.* After examining the education of the German, British, and American children, Coubertin decided that it was exercise, more specifically sports, that made a well-rounded and vigorous person.

The Most Famous Athletes:

Mary Lou Retton.

Mary Lou Retton is probably the most famous Olympic athlete, and certainly a fan favorite. The American gymnast is the first woman outside Eastern Europe to win the Olympic all-around title. She won five medals in the 1984 summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California--one gold, two silver, and two bronze.

Mark Spitz.

Mark Spitz is a retired American swimmer and Olympic icon. He won seven gold medals at the 1972 summer Olympic Games in Munich, Germany. His long-standing record held for more than 35 years, until American Michael Phelps broke the record with eight gold medals in 2008. During his years of swimming, Spitz set more than thirty world records.

Bruce Jenner.

Bruce Jenner is a former track and field athlete. He is best known for winning a gold medal in the decathlon in the 1976 summer Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada. Following his Olympic success, Jenner became a celebrity actor featured in several movies and television series. He was also a successful race car driver in the 1980s.

Wilma Rudolph

Wilma Rudolph, an American track and field star, was considered “the fastest woman in the world” in the 1960s. She competed in the 1956 summer Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, winning a bronze medal. She became an international star in 1960, when she won three gold medals at the Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias was an American athlete in the 1930s. She was known as a versatile female competitor. She won two gold and one silver medal in track and field events in the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California. She was also skilled at basketball, softball, diving, roller-skating, and bowling. By the late 1940s, Zaharias had become America’s first female golf celebrity.

Carl Lewis.

Carl Lewis is a former American track and field star. He impressed America and the world with ten Olympic medals, including nine gold. Lewis won his first four Olympic events in the 1984 summer games in Los Angeles, California. The 1988 games in Seoul, South Korea, gave him three medals, including his lone silver medal. In 1992, he won two more gold medals in Barcelona, Spain. He won his last Olympic event in 1996, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dorothy Hamill.

Dorothy Hamill is a famous American figure skater. She won the 1976 Olympic figure skating competition at Innsbruck, Austria, and quickly became “America’s Sweetheart.“ Following the Olympics, Hamill turned professional as an Ice Capades headliner from 1977 to 1984.

Scott Hamilton.

Scott Hamilton is another famous figure skater and Olympic gold medalist. He won the gold medal in the 1984 men’s figure skating competition in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina). He also won many national and world championships. After turning professional, Hamilton starred in several ice shows.

Dan Jansen.

Dan Jansen is a former speed skater best known for the gold-medal win in his final Olympic race after several years of family tragedy and heartbreak. He won his speed-skating event in the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. Today, Jansen is a speed-skating commentator for the NBC television network. 

Eric Heiden

Eric Heiden is a former long-track speed skater and road cyclist. He won five gold medals at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. Heiden is the only athlete in speed-skating history to win all five events in a single Olympic Games, and the only person to win gold in all five events.