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Question word placement
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뭐, 어디, 언제, 왜, 어떻게 often occupy the grammatical slot of the answer.
이거 뭐예요? keeps 뭐 in the complement position.
Politeness still lives on the ending: 요 / 습니까.
Mistake: only practicing sentence-initial question words and freezing in real talk.
Level: beginner. Read both sides of the contrast, say the examples out loud, then write one correct and one incorrect sentence and fix it.
Cross-link: open the related grammar or tools page the same day so the fix sticks in your study graph.
Examples
이거 얼마예요?
How much is this?
어디에 살아요?
Where do you live?
왜 늦었어요?
Why were you late?
Common mistakes
- Translating the English pair word-for-word without checking which Korean form carries the real distinction.
- Treating the two forms as free synonyms after memorizing only one example.
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