• painting. The interrogative words who, whom, whose, what, and which are interrogative pronouns when used in the place of a noun or noun phrase. In the question...
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  • interrogative mood. Interrogative clauses may sometimes be embedded within a phrase, for example: "Paul knows who is sick", where the interrogative clause...
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  • journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates a question or interrogative clause or phrase in many languages. In the fifth century, Syriac Bible manuscripts...
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    English interrogative words (also known as "wh words" or "wh forms") are words in English with a central role in forming interrogative phrases and clauses...
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  • reflexive and reciprocal pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, relative and interrogative pronouns, and indefinite pronouns.: 1–34  The use of pronouns often...
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  • phrase (see above). English allows the use of "stranded" prepositions. This can occur in interrogative and relative clauses, where the interrogative or...
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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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    clause has a fronted noun phrase (Front: NP) what, which is co-indexed to the object gap in a lower VP. Closed interrogative clauses can be further subdivided...
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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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    not a pronoun. Also, dummy pronouns and interrogative pronouns are not deictic. In contrast, most noun phrases headed by common or proper nouns are not...
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    relative phrase, while integrated relatives do not.: 280  There is significant overlap between the English relative words and the English interrogative words...
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    often metaphorical and are an example of formulaic language. A proverbial phrase or a proverbial expression is a type of a conventional saying similar to...
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  • two kinds of interrogatives: yes–no interrogatives, and correlative interrogatives. Yes–no questions are formed with the interrogative ĉu "whether" at...
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  • likes the meat? – Matrix interrogative wh-clause focusing on the subject c. They asked who likes the meat. – Embedded interrogative wh-clause focusing on...
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    be", merging the free relative pronoun what (= "that which") with the interrogative what? Livingston and Evans had some knowledge of Spanish, and early...
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    following are the interrogative determiners: what which These determiners can also be followed by -ever and -soever. Interrogative determiners are typically...
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  • basic sentence forms (or "structures") in English are the declarative, interrogative, exclamative, imperative and the optative. These correspond to the discourse...
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  • Words such as each and every are examples of distributive determiners. Interrogative determiners such as which, what, and how are used to ask a question:...
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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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    Who (pronoun) (category Interrogative words and phrases)
    Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The pronoun who, in English, is an interrogative pronoun and a relative pronoun, used primarily to refer to persons....
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    head adverb phrases, and whose most typical members function as modifiers in verb phrases and clauses, along with adjective and adverb phrases. The category...
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  • linguistics, a determiner phrase (DP) is a type of phrase headed by a determiner such as many. Controversially, many approaches take a phrase like not very many...
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  • originally had other functions. For example, the English which is also an interrogative word. This suggests that relative pronouns might be a fairly late development...
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  • Infinitive (redirect from Infinitive phrase)
    "I don't know where to go." In sentence fragment that constitutes an interrogative – the bare infinitive is used after why, e.g., "Why reveal it?" the...
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  • non-interrogative" CPs. John thinks ∅ it is raining outside. John thinks that it is raining outside. John prefers for it to be raining. Tense phrases in...
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  • also one of the objects; Relative pronouns, which connect clauses; Interrogative pronouns, which are used in questions, such as who?; Indefinite pronouns...
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    allows subject–auxiliary inversion to take place, as is required in most interrogative sentences in English. If there is already an auxiliary or copula present...
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  • interrogative sentence "Can you pass me the salt?" is not intended to express a question but rather to express a command. Likewise, the interrogative...
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  • 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 the sentence...
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    suffixes in the indicative and interrogative moods. Where the indicative and interrogative forms differ, the interrogative form is given second in brackets...
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