Who or what?
Hello everybody!

So,I have the following sentence
"A freshman is a first year student; a sophomore is a second year student."
And I need to make up the question to this sentence.
"Who is a freshman?"-is this a correct sentence? or "What is a freshman?"

Thank you!!

Question

Who or what?
Hello everybody!

So,I have the following sentence 
"A freshman is a first year student; a sophomore is a second year student."
And I need to make up the question to this sentence. 
"Who is a freshman?"-is this a correct sentence? or "What is a freshman?"

Thank you!!

Answer

"What is a freshman?" is what you want.

If you said "Who is a freshman?", you're asking the person to tell you who is a freshman (say, from a group of people).  Or you might be asking a group of students: "Who [here] is a Freshman?", to which you'd expect some of the people to  put their hand up.

Answer

what is a freshman?

maybe you can also ask, what's the meaning of freshman?

Answer

The sentence gives definitions for two *words* -- and words are things, not people -- so we use "what is a ___".

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