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Discover LudwigThe word 'interrogative' is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used as an adjective to describe a question. For example: "The interrogative questions on the exam were very difficult."
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interrogative
noun
A word (pronoun, pronominal adjective, or adverb) implying interrogation, or used for asking a question: why, who, when, etc.
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Anthony Minghella's "Play" attempts to compensate for the loss of the play's interrogative spotlight with a drama of the camera's focus and brief jump-cuts.
On the other hand, it supports the idea of a reforming, deliberative, interrogative second chamber functions that might be better carried out by people of more independence and higher calibre than most party nominees.The tight deadline for the royal commission and the government's promised response before the election reduce the risk that a neutered Lords might never be fully reformed.
The author explains that he is using London Multicultural, a form of English characterised by African, Caribbean and South Asian borrowings and the relentless use of interrogative endings, like "innit?".Linguistic hygienists have been fighting against such innovations since pen was first put to paper.
Against the Tory din, Mr Miliband maintained the interrogative tone of a firm, rather exasperated, schoolteacher.
All languages can employ different sentence structures to state facts (declarative), to ask questions (interrogative), and to enjoin or forbid some course of action (imperative).
or by adding an interrogative particle to the phrase or clause questioned.
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The relative-interrogative pronoun kwi- 'who' (compare Latin quī/quis) is pan-Anatolian.
By the end of the second year, he understands interrogatives such as "where," "who," and "what," and by three years of age he can correctly interpret the respective use of the words "this" or "that" and "here" or "there," as well as the terms "in front of" and "behind".
Pullum and Scholz provide evidence that, contrary to what Chomsky asserts in his discussion of polar interrogatives, children can expect to encounter plenty of data that would alert them to the falsity of H1.
That is, if the innateness of UG tout court is to be supported by poverty of the stimulus considerations, the idea must be that the cases that nativists discuss in detail (polar interrogatives, complex auxiliaries, etc).
They include assertibles (the Stoic equivalent for propositions), imperativals, interrogatives, inquiries, exclamatives, hypotheses or suppositions, stipulations, oaths, curses and more.
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