An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, which, when, where, who, whom, whose, why, whether and...
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An interrogative clause is a clause whose form is typically associated with question-like meanings. For instance, the English sentence "Is Hannah sick...
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In English, the interrogative words (sometimes known as "wh words") may be divided into those associated with asking open-ended questions (how, what,...
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English clause syntax (section Interrogative)
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,...
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English grammar (redirect from English word order)
other questions, formed with interrogative words such as where, what, how, etc. An exception applies when the interrogative word is the subject or part of...
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detail below. All of the interrogative words used in Tagalog are not related to Spanish, with the exception of kumustá. The word kumustá is derived from...
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town. In syntactic pied-piping, a focused expression (such as an interrogative word) pulls its host phrase with it when it moves to its new position in...
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Question (category Interrogative words and phrases)
distinguished from interrogatives, which are the grammatical forms, typically used to express them. Rhetorical questions, for instance, are interrogative in form...
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to: How (greeting), a word used in some misrepresentations of Native American/First Nations speech How, an interrogative word in English grammar How...
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the free dictionary. What or WHAT may refer to: What, an English interrogative word "What?", one of the Five Ws used in journalism What! (film), also...
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of interrogative words. It is especially common for a form that otherwise means what to be borrowed as a complementizer, but other interrogative words...
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invariable word. Words used as relative pronouns often originally had other functions. For example, the English which is also an interrogative word. This suggests...
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Wh-movement (category Interrogative words and phrases)
or wh-raising) is the formation of syntactic dependencies involving interrogative words. An example in English is the dependency formed between what and...
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English interrogative word which (command), an operating system command Which?, a UK charity and its magazine English relative clauses Interrogative clause...
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Part of speech (redirect from Closed class word)
social standing and respect. Some word classes are universally closed, however, including demonstratives and interrogative words. Part-of-speech tagging Sliding...
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VSO in declarative sentences, it always puts interrogative words or phrases first in interrogative word questions; if it has dominant order SOV in declarative...
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Pronunciation of English ⟨wh⟩ (category All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases)
perceived (and spelt) as beginning with plain /h/. This occurred with the interrogative word how (Proto-Germanic *hwō, Old English hū). A similar process of labialization...
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Question mark (redirect from Interrogative-point)
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...
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pronounced differently from w Pronunciation of English ⟨wh⟩ wh-word, a name for an interrogative word such as where and when wh-movement, a syntactic phenomenon...
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questions are formed by replacing the unknown information with the interrogative word seme. Toki Pona has four basic pronouns: mi (first person), sina (second...
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SV-clauses can also be interrogative or exclamative, however, given the appropriate intonation contour and/or the appearance of a question word, e.g. a. The pig...
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technical terms, and adoptions and adaptations of foreign words. Each function word either: gives grammatical information about other words in a sentence or...
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entire sentence or subsentence: Yes, or that as in "That is true". An interrogative pro-form is a pro-form that denotes the (unknown) item in question and...
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languages such as English and German, word order is used as a means of turning declarative into interrogative sentences: A: 'Wen liebt Kate?' / 'Kate...
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use. An apostrophe was used to mark an interrogative word, and a comma appeared at the end of an interrogative sentence. From the 12th century on, these...
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The (redirect from The (word))
It is the definite article in English. The is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account...
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question focuses on an unknown piece of information, often using an interrogative word (e.g., who, what, when etc.). The corresponding answer provides the...
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Preposition stranding (category Word order)
constructions in these situations. An open interrogative often takes the form of a wh- question (beginning with a word like what or who). P-stranding in English...
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Questions are formed by subject–auxiliary inversion (unless the interrogative word is part of the subject). If there is otherwise no auxiliary, the verb...
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