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interrogative pronoun
noun
A pronoun used in a question. In English, the five interrogative pronouns are what, which, who, whom, and whose (also used as relative pronouns). These require no antecedent.
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Those dialects are called Shtokavian because they use the form što (pronounced in English as shto) for the interrogative pronoun 'what?'what
Interrogative sentences (questions) are formed by using either an interrogative pronoun or adverb (meaning who, which, when, where, etc). or by adding an interrogative particle to the phrase or clause questioned.
As an example of the latter point, Nomatsigenka, Matsigenka, and Nanti preserve a proto-Kampan pattern of expressing negative indefinite pronouns via a construction that consists of the realis negator followed by an interrogative pronoun.
A sentence that ends in a noun phrase predicate can become subordinate by the addition of a nonfinite verb such as *ā 'to be,' or *yan 'to say.' Quotations are signaled by a quotative particle derived from the verb 'to say' meaning 'having said.' Interrogative sentences (questions) are formed by using either an interrogative pronoun or adverb (meaning who, which, when, where, etc).
Grammarians classify pronouns into several types, including the personal pronoun, the demonstrative pronoun, the interrogative pronoun, the indefinite pronoun".
If we start with the Greek word for 'any,' which is tis; it is an interrogative pronoun used in order to ask a question: who, which, what?
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To help with the American classification, Dr. Greenberg started making lists of words in languages of the Eurasian land mass, particularly personal pronouns and interrogative pronouns.
In contrast, Ashéninka, Asháninka, and Caquinte have innovated a negative indefinite pronoun that is distinct from all interrogative pronouns in those languages.
Ottawa interrogative pronouns and adverbs frequently have the emphatic pronoun dash fused with them to form a single word.
Other word (sub- classes include interrogative pronounsub- classesons (whincludee partinterrogativetials, and pronounss, the last being rather numerous.
Know that we use Interrogative pronouns when asking questions.
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