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How to pronounce interrogative in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms interrogation, interrogative sentence, question
Type of sentence
Has types leading question, cross-question, yes-no question
Type Words
Synonyms interrogative mood
Type of mode, mood, modality
Type Words
Synonyms interrogatory
Derivation interrogate
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not all questions have an interrogative construction.

Examples of interrogative

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More important than her interrogative style will be Sotomayor's decision-making.
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Distinctive grammatical patterns exist such as the use of the interrogative eh?
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Another frequent source of complementizers is the class of interrogative words.
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The plural interrogative pronouns are the same as the plural relative pronouns.
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Interrogative intonation rises on the penultimate and falls on the last syllable.
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There is neither a dative nor a genitive of the impersonal interrogative pronoun.
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When an interrogative pronoun is used, pitch falls at the end of a question.
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This means one makes an interrogative clause by changing the declarative word order.
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Thus, most declarative sentences can become interrogative with the right intonation.
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More examples
  • Question: a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply; "he asked a direct question"; "he had trouble phrasing his interrogations"
  • Relating to verbs in the so-called interrogative mood; "not all questions have an interrogative construction"
  • Relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation
  • (interrogatively) in a questioning format
  • (interrogatively) curiously: with curiosity; "the baby looked around curiously"
  • (Interrogatives) are also very important words of the Portuguese vocabulary. Interrogatives are the question-words. They allow us to ask questions like "Onde?" [on-deh] - "where", "Quando" [kwando] - "When", etc.
  • It means asking a question. You'll hear this in expressions like interrogative pronoun and interrogative adjective. The former means a pronoun that asks a question, like quid, what? or quis, who? The latter means an adjective that asks a question, like qui homines, which men? ...
  • (adj.) : having the form of a question
  • Radio code prefacing a question