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Definition of Interrogative sentence

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Interrogative Sentence

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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