Interrogatives

Word INTERROGATIVES
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Definitions and meanings of "Interrogatives"

What do we mean by interrogatives?

(grammar) A word (pronoun, pronominal adjective, or adverb) implying interrogation, or used for asking a question: why, who, when, etc.

A question; an interrogation.

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The word "interrogatives" in example sentences

His strings of interrogatives at times give the pleasing effect of taking the reader into his confidence, but they can be frustrating. ❋ James Romm (2012)

(PS: And, Keith, interrogatives need a question mark.) ❋ Unknown (2009)

BTW it is rich for you to demand anything of anyone - you never answer interrogatives. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

Pullum and Scholz provide evidence that, contrary to what Chomsky asserts in his discussion of polar interrogatives, children can expect to encounter plenty of data that would alert them to the falsity of H1. ❋ Cowie, Fiona (2008)

Of all of the interrogatives in our language, “why” is the most speculative. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Two things occur to me as I look through the list and consider the imperatives implied by the interrogatives. ❋ Bruce Schauble (2008)

That is, if the innateness of UG tout court is to be supported by poverty of the stimulus considerations, the idea must be that the cases that nativists discuss in detail (polar interrogatives, complex auxiliaries, etc.) are but the tip of the unlearnable iceberg. ❋ Cowie, Fiona (2008)

In the example of polar interrogatives, discussed above, we saw how children apparently require explicit falsifying evidence in order to rule out the plausible-seeming but false hypothesis, H1. ❋ Cowie, Fiona (2008)

One of these concerns learning how to form ˜polar interrogatives,™ i.e., questions demanding yes or no by way of answer, via ❋ Cowie, Fiona (2008)

I think the idea that those response patterns are better modified by presenting "ethical interrogatives" than by teaching "moral imperatives" opens up a vast field of possibilities, even if it isn't as black-and-white as Kohlberg asserts; even if it's not an outright impossibility to * teach* someone a "higher level" of ethical development, I find it quite plausible that his technique of presenting challenges is more effective. ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)

The contrast is even more marked in interrogatives: Would you like to visit Mary? is OK, but Would you like visiting Mary? isn't. ❋ DC (2007)

As I listened, the series of interrogatives seemed to capture the very soul of modern China. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He translated each brief sentence aloud and afterward explained a short list of interrogatives: what, who, how many. ❋ John Dalton (2004)

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