Who are you vs Who you are?

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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Can you please explain which one is right?

  1. What are you looking for? OR What are you looking for?
  2. Who are you OR Who you are?

It seems both are correct, but, I am not able to figure it out

Regards
Deepak

2

What is the difference between these two questions? They look the same and they are correct.

“Who are you?” is a question and “Who you are” is not, it can be used as a part of a statement: “You know who you are.”, or as a part of an indirect question: Do you know who you are?"

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I believe the problem here is that to some non native teachers, in their L1, the question is not always in the word order: What are you looking for?. But in the word stress.
Hence, What ‘are’ you looking for? and What ‘you’ are looking for? seems the same. All the words required are present. In English word order plays a more important part in question forming.

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Thanks Milanya

Milanya wrote

What is the difference between tese two questions? They look the same and they are correct.

Actually I mean, What are you looking for? OR What you are looking for?

If I understand correctly, can I say “I am not sure what you are looking for.” If I need to ask a question, then I should say “What are you looking for”?

I can see in both sentences, position of are is different. Is there any grammar rule around this?