Sentence examples for interrogatively from inspiring English sources

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interrogatively

adverb

In an interrogative manner; by means of a question.

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If you say 'No,' he says 'Yes?' (interrogatively), and asks in what respect they differ.

Then he guesses that you don't travel faster in England; and on your replying that you do, says 'Yes?' again (still interrogatively), and, it is quite evident, don't believe it.

You enumerate the heads of difference, one by one, and he says 'Yes?' (still interrogatively) to each.

The first world war was a much more typical war: what were all those people really fighting for?" Many of Martin's comments end interrogatively, which, he explains, reflects his temperament: "I'm not the sort of writer who gives answers; I prefer to raise questions.

Our current answer is not a resounding "No!" It's a slightly interrogatively inflected "Probably not", which is hardly a ringing endorsement of the health of American civilisation.

The written language compensates in part for the lack of punctuation marks by the use of "function words", graphs that have little or no meaning on their own, but serve as grammatical instructions: zhe, 者, for example, usually nominalizes what precedes it; ye, 也, is a phrase-final marker; hu, 乎, concludes sentences to be read interrogatively; and so on.

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'What kind of language is this?' Kate Bush sings, self-interrogatively, on the title track, the last of the album.

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