interrogative
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
- (grammar) Asking or denoting a question: as, an interrogative phrase, pronoun, or point.
- 1877: William Dwight Whitney, Essentials of English Grammar for the Use of Schools §470
- The regular place of the interrogative word, of whatever kind, is at the beginning of the sentence, or as near it as possible.
- 1877: William Dwight Whitney, Essentials of English Grammar for the Use of Schools §470
- Pertaining to inquiry; questioning
- He took on an interrogative tone of voice.
- 1847: Charles Sealsfield, Rambleton: A Romance of Fashionable Life in New-York during the Great Speculation of 1836 OCLC 12337689, page 127:
- Thus speaking, the good man regarded his lady with an interrogative look. "I do n't know, dear!" she replied kindly, and sighing again.
- French: interrogatif
- German: Frage, interrogativ, fragend
- Italian: interrogativo
- Portuguese: interrogativo
- Russian: вопроси́тельный
- Spanish: interrogativo
interrogative (plural interrogatives)
- (grammar) A word (pronoun, pronominal adjective, or adverb) implying interrogation, or used for asking a question: why, who, when, etc.
- (typography, archaic) Synonym of question mark#English|question mark ⟨?⟩.
- 1824, J. Johnson, Typographia:
- There be five manner of points and divisions most used among cunning men; the which if they be well used, make the sentence very light and easy to be understood, both to the reader and hearer: and they be these, virgil,—come,—parenthesis,—plain point,—interrogative.
- 1842, F. Francillon, An Essay on Punctuation ↗, page 9 ↗:
- Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.
- 1824, J. Johnson, Typographia:
- (rare) A question; an interrogation.
- 1819: Sir Walter Scott, A Legend of Montrose, xii
- "Who are you, sir, and what is your business?" demanded the Marquis... "That is a fair interrogative, my lord," answered Dalgetty.
- 1819: Sir Walter Scott, A Legend of Montrose, xii
- (punctuation mark) See question mark
- Spanish: interrogativo
- Italian: interrogativo
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