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AUX

S

V

Why | have | they | got to | sit and wait?

(wh-word refers to the adjunct)

(Why they have got to sit and wait?)

A

AUX   

S

V

When | are | you | leaving?

(wh-word refers to the adjunct)

(When you are leaving?)

C (SUBJ)

V

S

Whose shoes | are | those?

(wh-word refers to the subject complement)

(Whose shoes those are?)

Wh

-interrogatives with lexical verb have are formed with auxiliary do or the have

got

construction when the wh-word refers to an element other than the subject.

The formal verb-subject construction is not used:

What do you have for me? Anything?

(What have you for me?)

Why have you got three email addresses?

(Why have you three email addresses?)

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