Definition of Interrogative sentence

1. Noun. A sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply. "He had trouble phrasing his interrogations"

Exact synonyms: Interrogation, Interrogative, Question
Generic synonyms: Sentence
Specialized synonyms: Cross-question, Leading Question, Yes-no Question
Derivative terms: Interrogate, Question, Question

Lexicographical Neighbors of Interrogative Sentence

interrogation
interrogation-point
interrogation-points
interrogation mark
interrogation marks
interrogation point
interrogation points
interrogational
interrogations
interrogative
interrogative adjective
interrogative adjectives
interrogative mood
interrogative pronoun
interrogative pronouns
interrogative sentence (current term)
interrogatively
interrogatives
interrogator
interrogatories
interrogators
interrogatory
interrogatrix
interrogee
interrogees
interrow
interrupt
interrupt request
interrupt requests
interruptable

Literary usage of Interrogative sentence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Essentials of English Grammar by William Dwight Whitney (1885)
"With such phrases, the imperative verb-phrase with let (477) is generally equivalent in meaning and interchangeable. THE EXCLAMATORY interrogative sentence. ..."

2. The German Language: Outlines of Its Development by Tobias Johann Casjen Diekhoff (1914)
"The Exclamatory Sentence, As to its form on paper, but there only, the exclamatory sentence.is often like the interrogative sentence, from which many really ..."

3. Folio (1836)
"When the final word of an interrogative sentence alludes mainly to the question, ... Where the three ending syllables of an interrogative sentence, ..."

4. An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (1874)
"In regard to an interrogative sentence, regard is often had to the interrogative word by but with a member of a sentence. Whom should I obey but thee? ..."

5. English Grammar for Common Schools by Robert Comfort Metcalf, Thomas Metcalf (1894)
"Vm. ARRANGEMENT OF AN interrogative sentence. In the foregoing lessons we have chiefly ... What is the order of arrangement in the interrogative sentence ? ..."

6. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar by Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (1905)
"An interrogative sentence is necessarily incomplete. It is completed by the answer. 451. A question may relate : (a) To the verb : Predicate Question ..."

7. Essentials of English by Henry Carr Pearson, Mary Frederika Kirchwey (1915)
"SUBJECT OF interrogative sentence The subject of the interrogative sentence is not ... In an interrogative sentence the sut ject names what is asked about, ..."

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