My hair color is black, and the question should be what is your hair color? or what hair color do you have?. However, it turns out surprisingly to me that the question with do is: what color hair do you have?, and if I were to ask about shoe size, I had to say: what size shoe do you wear?
Now I am confused because I am not sure if I am right asking about: some abc tool's shape, a pipe's length, some xyz solution's temperature and whatnot.
Are size and color exceptions, then, what tool shape do you make? or a rule, and so: what shape tool do you make?
Best Answer
If I was asking someone about the color of their hair, I might just say:
However, if I was forced to put the question in a "What ................. do you have?" format, I'd probably say:
There is an exception (and that is the wonderful thing about English – it seems there's always an exception): If I was asking someone about hair coloring; that is, if I was talking about a product used to color hair (for example, if I'm asking about something like this):
then I might ask instead:
As for your tool question, think I would use something like:
although it's a rather awkward construct, and there's wiggle room for other wordings. In general, though, I think I prefer one of these formats:
Sometimes there are subtle nuances involved, like the way I changed flavors to flavor and ice cream to ice creams (that's because I'm expecting that the vendor will sell more than one flavor of ice cream). So, even though I could ask:
I would probably not ask:
unless I was expecting an answer like, "I wear Size 8 tennis shoes but Size 9 boots."