| NOUN | an interrogative | interrogatives |
| SYNO | interrogation | interrogative | interrogative mood | ... |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- The interrogative adjective, sometimes also labelled as the interrogative pronoun ('which?, what sort of?'), also has some variant forms listed in parentheses.
- Some contributions in this direction are Jaakko Hintikka's interrogative model and Andrzej Wiśniewski's inferential erotetic logic (IEL).
- In English, the pied-piping mechanism is more flexible in relative clauses than in interrogative clauses, because material can be pied-piped that would be less acceptable in the corresponding interrogative clause.
- In interrogative sentences, the interrogative particle comes first.
- Interrogative words in English can serve as interrogative determiners, interrogative pronouns, or interrogative adverbs.
- Questions may be marked by some combination of word order, morphology, interrogative words, and intonation.
- The interrogative and relative pronoun "who" has the possessive "whose". In its relative use, "whose" can also refer to inanimate antecedents, but its interrogative use always refers to persons.
- Interrogative sentences often have interrogative pronouns and typically have a rising intonation that drops at the end of the question.
- The interrogative pronouns are used strictly for asking questions.
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