Sentence examples for an ordinary question from inspiring English sources

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — One morning two months ago, Shamsia Husseini and her sister were walking through the muddy streets to the local girls school when a man pulled alongside them on a motorcycle and posed what seemed like an ordinary question.

While an ordinary question seeks information or an answer from the hearer, a rhetorical question does not expect to elicit an answer.

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By Michael Schulman "How would you like your eggs?" This ordinary question turned fraught during the past two weeks, when a salmonella outbreak, originating on two farms in Iowa, caused the recall of more than half a billion eggs.

But ISIS keeps on defying ordinary questions.

She had asked him some stupid ordinary questions.

On a brief foray abroad this summer, he managed, in rapid order, to insult the British, to pander crudely to Benjamin Netanyahu in order to win the votes and contributions of his conservative Jewish and Evangelical supporters, and to dodge ordinary questions from the press in Poland.

The whole point of the now infamous television show is its cheery contempt for those workaday contestants who struggle to answer ordinary questions and then often blow their chances for the big money by choosing to go with what they've won instead of risking it all on one more try.

I show that rhetorical questions and ordinary questions do not pattern alike with respect to various well-formedness conditions, such as negative polarity item licensing.

Henry's most concentrated attention to skeptical issues occurs in the first two questions of his Summa Quaestionum Ordinariarum (Ordinary Questions).

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