Quote Originally Posted by Selexin
As a matter of fact there was a task from a grammar book in which one had to choose the correct question out of several proposed options so that it can be matched with the reply:
"There are some books on the table."
The options were as follows:
a) Where are some books?
b) Where are there some books?
c) Where are any books?
d) Where are there any books?
e) Where are books?
f) Where are the books?
a c and e are all bad. b and c are really the same thing. f could be used sometimes. If I brought home a bag of books and then I couldn't find them, I might ask my wife "Where are the books?" If she didn't know which books I was talking about, she could use answer f.