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Definition of Interrogative mood
1. Noun. Some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Interrogative Mood
Literary usage of Interrogative mood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Philological Studies: With English Illustrations by Josiah Willard Gibbs, Karl Ferdinand Becker (1857)
"THE interrogative mood consists of an imperfect proposition, addressed to another
for him to ... The varieties of the interrogative mood are as follows: (1. ..."
2. The Principles of Grammar: An Introduction to the Study of the Laws of by Herbert Joseph Davenport, Anna M. Emerson (1898)
"Why is not an interrogative mood to be recognized in English ? ... Secondly, were
a distinct interrogative mood recognized, it would be necessary to ..."
3. Transactions by Gaelic Society of Inverness (1888)
"... I think, that this Gaelic usage of a Negative and Interrogative "Mood," if
not traceable directly to certain forms in Irish conjugation, may at least be ..."
4. The Philosophy of Language: Comprehending Universal Grammar, Or the Pure by John Stoddart (1854)
"On these grounds the writer alluded to concludes, that " the [so t called]
interrogative mood is a useless distinction," and one which (he says) is "not ..."
5. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.. by Robert Adam, Royal Society of Edinburgh (1790)
"... by any circumlocution *; but it is fully denoted by the interrogative mood,
as appears by the ... to the interrogative mood, is equally true with ..."
6. The Quarterly Theological Review: Conducted by the Rev. Ezra Stiles Ely edited by Ezra Stiles Ely (1818)
"Had he given us also the interrogative mood, we think he would have been complete
... This he cannot say of our interrogative mood, and we hope, therefore, ..."
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