Sentence examples for an implied question from inspiring English sources

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It seemed that this duality reflected the appearance several times of an implied question and answer from one line to another.

For a start, the secretary Miss Cooper's habit of ending a sentence with an implied question mark may be ubiquitous these days, but I'm not convinced anyone did it even 30 years ago, let alone 50 years ago.

My book, "Workarounds That Work: How to Overcome Anything That Stands in Your Way at Work," poses an implied question: how do you deal with the frustrations, roadblocks and difficult situations that are increasingly common in everyday life?

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(1) is a relevance implicature: the speaker implicates an answer to an expressed or implied question by stating something related to it by implication or explanation.

Why is the implied question.

The implied question also returns: Do any of us really speak for ourselves?

Blake's implied question is how could one God have created both creatures, the one benign, the other ferocious?

The implied question- "should we be eating more butter?"- is diverting, and deceptive.

In typical avant-garde fashion, the novel weaves a rhetorical landscape in a tale that frequently seems to offer little more than implied questions.

Although this article was written in a Q&A format, the implied questioner asked no question.

The reason is that focusing on MCQs comes with an implied assumption that, for every question, there exist solutions/answers and that they are essentially right in front of the student.

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