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...

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

of interrogative words. It is especially common for a form that otherwise means what to be borrowed as a complementizer, but other interrogative words...

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,...

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

reflexive and reciprocal pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, relative and interrogative pronouns, and indefinite pronouns.: 1–34  The use of pronouns often...

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) or The...

The English interrogative words (also known as "wh words" or "wh forms") are words in English with a central role in forming interrogative phrases and...

to: How (greeting), a word used in some misrepresentations of Native American/First Nations speech How, an interrogative word in English grammar How...

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...

English interrogative word which (command), an operating system command Which?, a UK charity and its magazine English relative clauses Interrogative clause...

invariable word. Words used as relative pronouns often originally had other functions. For example, the English which is also an interrogative word. This suggests...

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...

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...

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...

eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates a question or interrogative clause or phrase in many languages. In the fifth century, Syriac Bible...

or wh-raising) is the formation of syntactic dependencies involving interrogative words. An example in English is the dependency formed between what and...

set of English interrogative words but function differently as relative words. The subordinator that is widely regarded as a relative word, though one with...

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...

social standing and respect. Some word classes are universally closed, however, including demonstratives and interrogative words. Part-of-speech tagging Sliding...

VSO in declarative sentences, it always puts interrogative words or phrases first in interrogative word questions; if it has dominant order SOV in declarative...

with an interrogative word (interrogative pro-forms or kas (yes/no-question), eks (yes-question), ega (no-question)), followed by the SVO word order (in...

the wh-cluster, though the spellings reflect the history more; see Interrogative word: Etymology for details. High German consonant shift Glottalic theory...

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...

an interrogative word like who, what, when, where, why, etc.), the question particles are вэ and бэ, depending on the last sound in the previous word. Yes/No...

has a canonical word order of SOV (subject–object–verb), as do other Dravidian languages. A rare OSV word order occurs in interrogative clauses when the...

Questions are formed by subject–auxiliary inversion (unless the interrogative word is part of the subject). If there is otherwise no auxiliary, the verb...

without an interrogative word (such as co, "what" or kdo, "who") are intoned in a slow rise from low to high, quickly dropping to low on the last word or phrase...

questions are formed by replacing the unknown information with the interrogative word seme. Toki Pona has four basic pronouns: mi (first person), sina (second...

technical terms, and adoptions and adaptations of foreign words. Each function word either: gives grammatical information about other words in a sentence or...