In English, the interrogative words (sometimes known as "wh words") may be divided into those associated with asking open-ended questions (how, what, when...

languages, see Interrogative. Interrogative words in English can serve as interrogative determiners, interrogative pronouns, or interrogative adverbs. Certain...

do-support (Do you like her?, Where did he go?). In most cases, interrogative words (wh-words; e.g. what, who, where, when, why, how) appear in a fronted...

remained [ʍ]. Because Proto-Indo-European interrogative words typically began with *kʷ, English interrogative words (such as who, which, what, when, where)...

spellings, mean that the spelling of modern English words appears highly irregular. Early Modern English – the language used by William Shakespeare –...

it works. Most also belong to the set of English interrogative words but function differently as relative words. The subordinator that is widely regarded...

An interrogative clause is a clause whose form is typically associated with question-like meanings. For instance, the English sentence "Is Hannah sick...

distinguished from interrogatives, which are the grammatical forms, typically used to express them. Rhetorical questions, for instance, are interrogative in form...

eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates a question or interrogative clause or phrase in many languages. The history of the question mark...

English prepositions are words – such as of, in, on, at, from, etc. – that function as the head of a prepositional phrase, and most characteristically...

correspondences is the English digraph wh and the corresponding Latin and Romance digraph qu, notably found in interrogative words (wh-words) such as the five...

below). Pronouns in formal modern English. † Rare. The full set of pronouns (i.e. personal, relative, interrogative and reciprocal pronouns), along with...

is the formation of syntactic dependencies involving interrogative words. An example in English is the dependency formed between what and the object position...

conjunctions,: 211  as will be discussed in more detail below. All of the interrogative words used in Tagalog are not related to Spanish, with the exception of...

þā Y in place of "when X, Y"). The wh-words (or "hw-words" in Old English's case) are used only as interrogatives and as indefinite pronouns. Similarly...

adverbs are simply an inflectional form of adjectives. There are two interrogative words how, an adverb and an adjective. The adjective is used only in question...

verbs becomes mandatory in interrogative sentences. "less", rather than "fewer", is used for countable nouns. For English comparisons, syntactic comparison...

English determiners constitute a relatively small class of words. They include the articles the and a[n]; certain demonstrative and interrogative words...

two kinds of interrogatives: yes–no interrogatives, and correlative interrogatives. Yes–no questions are formed with the interrogative ĉu "whether" at...

there? where what is the interrogative word, can is the auxiliary, and you is the subject. In such cases, the interrogative word is said to be fronted...

In English, possessive words or phrases exist for nouns and most pronouns, as well as some noun phrases. These can play the roles of determiners (also...

classes are universally closed, however, including demonstratives and interrogative words. Part-of-speech tagging Sliding window based part-of-speech tagging...

pronouns, as well as interrogative and relative pronouns, were chosen according to the grammatical gender of their antecedent. Old English grammatical gender...

or /k/ in the Romance languages. See etymology of English interrogative words for details. The English phonemic spelling kw for qu (as in kwik) echoes its...

grammatical properties: among these, that they invert with their subjects in interrogative main clauses (Has John arrived?) and are negated either by the simple...

need in British English conversation and unused in American English conversation.163 In both American and British English, interrogative constructions that...

meaning. In the English system of grammatical number, singular means "one (or minus one)", and plural means "not singular". In other words, plural means...

states. Distinctive grammatical patterns exist such as the use of the interrogative eh (also spelled ay or aye), which is particularly associated with Queensland...

main parts of speech (word classes) in the English language. Like other types of words in the language, English verbs are not heavily inflected. Most combinations...

conservative, even archaic, form. "Proverbs often contain archaic... words and structures." In English, for example, "betwixt" is not commonly used, but a form of...