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  • An interrogative clause is a clause whose form is typically associated with question-like meanings. For instance, the English sentence "Is Hannah sick...
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  • An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, which, when, where, who, whom, whose, why, whether and...
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    The English interrogative words (also known as "wh words" or "wh forms") are words in English with a central role in forming interrogative phrases and...
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  • two kinds of interrogatives: yes–no interrogatives, and correlative interrogatives. Yes–no questions are formed with the interrogative ĉu "whether" at...
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  • eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates a question or interrogative clause or phrase in many languages. In the fifth century, Syriac Bible...
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    Question (category Interrogative words and phrases)
    distinguished from interrogatives, which are the grammatical forms, typically used to express them. Rhetorical questions, for instance, are interrogative in form...
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  • reflexive and reciprocal pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, relative and interrogative pronouns, and indefinite pronouns.: 1–34  The use of pronouns often...
    31 KB (3,454 words) - 01:31, 30 September 2024
  • A tag question is a construction in which an interrogative element is added to a declarative or an imperative clause. The resulting speech act comprises...
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    A proverb (from Latin: proverbium) or an adage is a simple, traditional saying that expresses a perceived truth based on common sense or experience. Proverbs...
    147 KB (19,562 words) - 18:20, 25 October 2024
  • sentences If (subordinator), a subordinator used for English subordinate interrogative clauses If.... (1968), a Lindsay Anderson film starring Malcolm McDowell...
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  • which correspond to declarative sentences, and interrogative content clauses, which correspond to interrogative sentences. Declarative content clauses can...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. What or WHAT may refer to: What, an English interrogative word "What?", one of the Five Ws used in journalism What! (film), also...
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    suffixes in the indicative and interrogative moods. Where the indicative and interrogative forms differ, the interrogative form is given second in brackets...
    84 KB (9,365 words) - 17:41, 23 October 2024
  • Words such as each and every are examples of distributive determiners. Interrogative determiners such as which, what, and how are used to ask a question:...
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    whose house did you go last night?. The personal interrogative pronoun who is the only interrogative pronoun to still show inflection for case, with the...
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  • originally had other functions. For example, the English which is also an interrogative word. This suggests that relative pronouns might be a fairly late development...
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  • entire sentence or subsentence: Yes, or that as in "That is true". An interrogative pro-form is a pro-form that denotes the (unknown) item in question and...
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  • Wh-movement (category Interrogative words and phrases)
    or wh-raising) is the formation of syntactic dependencies involving interrogative words. An example in English is the dependency formed between what and...
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  • prefix can serve as a conjunction, preposition, definite article, or interrogative. Prefixes are also used when conjugating verbs in the future tense and...
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  • of relative (but not interrogative) whose to refer to non-persons (e.g., the car whose door won't open). All the interrogative pronouns can also be used...
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