interrogative

[US]/ˌɪntəˈrɒɡətɪv/
[UK]/ˌɪntəˈrɑːɡətɪv/
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Translation

adj. indicating a question, questioning
n. interrogative pronoun

Phrases & Collocations

interrogative sentence

interrogative pronoun

Example Sentences

an interrogative adverb; an interrogative particle.

an interrogative adverb

a hard, interrogative stare.

an interrogative raising of the eyebrows.

This paper discusses the possibility of semantic combinations between every two types of mood patterns: declarative, imperative, interrogative and exclamative.

Real-world Examples

Other types include interrogative pronouns, like who, what, which, and whose.

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I want one in affirmative, one in the negative and one in the interrogative.

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The questions began to feel interrogative.

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Interrogative sentence, it's a question, but it's still a sentence.

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[Dave] We can make it a question, so interrogative's can you learn anything?

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That's, like, a similar word to interrogative, is just having a lot of questions asked.

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Number five, easy now we've looked at number four, with interrogative phrases modal verbs are used like other auxiliary verbs: modal verb, subject, verb.

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Interrogative sentences can all still start with question words such as where, what, when, etc. , and we use an affirmative or negative sentence as the answer.

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With this the two young men took their departure; after which Catherine, with her blush still lingering, directed a serious and interrogative eye to Mrs. Penniman.

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These interrogatives were addressed to the footman who had come in to say that the keeper had found one of Dagley's boys with a leveret in his hand just killed.

Source: Middlemarch (Part Three)

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