Interrogative word, the Glossary
An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, which, when, where, who, whom, whose, why, whether and how.[1]
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64 relations: Ablative case, Adjunct (grammar), Adverb, Adverbial, Adverbial clause, Australian Aboriginal kinship, Australian Aboriginal languages, Auxiliary verb, Basque grammar, Bengali language, Catalan language, Content clause, Dative case, Determiner, English language, English relative clauses, English-speaking world, Epistemic modality, Five Ws, French language, Function word, Grammatical case, Grammatical particle, Indefinite pronoun, Indeterminate pronoun, Instrumental case, Interrogative, Japanese language, Jingulu language, Korean language, Ladin language, Lexeme, List of Latin-script digraphs, Locative adverb, Locative case, Mongolian language, Morphology (linguistics), Noun, Noun phrase, Paman languages, Persian language, Personal pronoun, Polish language, Possessive determiner, Pronominal adverb, Pronoun, Question, Relative clause, Relative pronoun, Rhetorical question, ... Expand index (14 more) »
- Interrogative words and phrases
Ablative case
In grammar, the ablative case (pronounced; sometimes abbreviated) is a grammatical case for nouns, pronouns, and adjectives in the grammars of various languages; it is sometimes used to express motion away from something, among other uses.
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Adjunct (grammar)
In linguistics, an adjunct is an optional, or structurally dispensable, part of a sentence, clause, or phrase that, if removed or discarded, will not structurally affect the remainder of the sentence.
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Adverb
An adverb is a word or an expression that generally modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, determiner, clause, preposition, or sentence.
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Adverbial
In English grammar, an adverbial (abbreviated) is a word (an adverb) or a group of words (an adverbial clause or adverbial phrase) that modifies or more closely defines the sentence or the verb.
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Adverbial clause
An adverbial clause is a dependent clause that functions as an adverb.
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Australian Aboriginal kinship
Aboriginal Australian kinship comprises the systems of Aboriginal customary law governing social interaction relating to kinship in traditional Aboriginal cultures.
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Australian Aboriginal languages
The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intelligible varieties) up to possibly 363.
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Auxiliary verb
An auxiliary verb (abbreviated) is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect, modality, voice, emphasis, etc.
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Basque grammar
This article provides a grammar sketch of Basque grammar.
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Bengali language
Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family native to the Bengal region of South Asia.
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Catalan language
Catalan (or; autonym: català), known in the Valencian Community and Carche as Valencian (autonym: valencià), is a Western Romance language.
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Content clause
In grammar, a content clause is a dependent clause that provides content implied or commented upon by an independent clause.
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Dative case
In grammar, the dative case (abbreviated, or sometimes when it is a core argument) is a grammatical case used in some languages to indicate the recipient or beneficiary of an action, as in "", Latin for "Maria gave Jacob a drink".
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Determiner
Determiner, also called determinative (abbreviated), is a term used in some models of grammatical description to describe a word or affix belonging to a class of noun modifiers.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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English relative clauses
Relative clauses in the English language are formed principally by means of relative words.
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English-speaking world
The English-speaking world comprises the 88 countries and territories in which English is an official, administrative, or cultural language.
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Epistemic modality
Epistemic modality is a sub-type of linguistic modality that encompasses knowledge, belief, or credence in a proposition.
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Five Ws
The Five Ws is a checklist used in journalism to ensure that the first paragraph (the "lead") contains all the essential points of a story. Interrogative word and Five Ws are interrogative words and phrases.
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French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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Function word
In linguistics, function words (also called functors) are words that have little lexical meaning or have ambiguous meaning and express grammatical relationships among other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker.
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Grammatical case
A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) that corresponds to one or more potential grammatical functions for a nominal group in a wording.
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Grammatical particle
In grammar, the term particle (abbreviated) has a traditional meaning, as a part of speech that cannot be inflected, and a modern meaning, as a function word (functor) associated with another word or phrase in order to impart meaning.
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Indefinite pronoun
An indefinite pronoun is a pronoun which does not have a specific, familiar referent.
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Indeterminate pronoun
An indeterminate pronoun is a pronoun which can show a variety of readings depending on the type of sentence it occurs in. Interrogative word and indeterminate pronoun are interrogative words and phrases.
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Instrumental case
In grammar, the instrumental case (abbreviated or) is a grammatical case used to indicate that a noun is the instrument or means by or with which the subject achieves or accomplishes an action.
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Interrogative
An interrogative clause is a clause whose form is typically associated with question-like meanings. Interrogative word and interrogative are interrogative words and phrases.
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Japanese language
is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.
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Jingulu language
Jingulu, also spelt Djingili, is an Australian language spoken by the Jingili people in the Northern Territory of Australia, historically around the township of Elliot.
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Korean language
Korean (South Korean: 한국어, Hangugeo; North Korean: 조선말, Chosŏnmal) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent.
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Ladin language
Ladin (autonym: ladin; ladino; Ladinisch) is a Romance language of the Rhaeto-Romance subgroup, mainly spoken in the Dolomite Mountains in Northern Italy in the provinces of South Tyrol, Trentino, and Belluno, by the Ladin people.
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Lexeme
A lexeme is a unit of lexical meaning that underlies a set of words that are related through inflection.
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List of Latin-script digraphs
This is a list of digraphs used in various Latin alphabets.
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Locative adverb
A locative adverb is a type of adverb that refers to a location or to a combination of a location and a relation to that location.
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Locative case
In grammar, the locative case (abbreviated) is a grammatical case which indicates a location.
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Mongolian language
Mongolian is the principal language of the Mongolic language family that originated in the Mongolian Plateau.
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Morphology (linguistics)
In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language.
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Noun
In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and ideas.
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Noun phrase
A noun phrase – or NP or nominal (phrase) – is a phrase that usually has a noun or pronoun as its head, and has the same grammatical functions as a noun.
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Paman languages
The Paman languages are an Australian language family spoken on Cape York Peninsula, Queensland.
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Persian language
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
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Personal pronoun
Personal pronouns are pronouns that are associated primarily with a particular grammatical person – first person (as I), second person (as you), or third person (as he, she, it, they).
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Polish language
Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.
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Possessive determiner
Possessive determiners are determiners which express possession.
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Pronominal adverb
A pronominal adverb is a type of adverb occurring in a number of Germanic languages, formed in replacement of a preposition and a pronoun by turning the former into a prepositional adverb and the latter into a locative adverb, and finally joining them in reverse order.
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Pronoun
In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (glossed) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase.
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Question
A question is an utterance which serves as a request for information. Interrogative word and question are interrogative words and phrases.
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Relative clause
A relative clause is a clause that modifies a noun or noun phrase and uses some grammatical device to indicate that one of the arguments in the relative clause refers to the noun or noun phrase.
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Relative pronoun
A relative pronoun is a pronoun that marks a relative clause.
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Rhetorical question
A rhetorical question is a question asked for a purpose other than to obtain information.
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Russian language
Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia.
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Sentence function
In linguistics, a sentence function refers to a speaker's purpose in uttering a specific sentence, phrase, or clause.
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Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croatian – also called Serbo-Croat, Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro.
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Standard Chinese
Standard Chinese is a modern standard form of Mandarin Chinese that was first codified during the republican era (1912‒1949).
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Suffix
In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.
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Turkish language
Turkish (Türkçe, Türk dili also Türkiye Türkçesi 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 90 to 100 million speakers.
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Ukrainian language
Ukrainian (label) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family spoken primarily in Ukraine.
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Umpithamu language
Umpithamu, also spelt Umbindhamu, is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia.
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Vowel harmony
In phonology, vowel harmony is a phonological rule in which the vowels of a given domain – typically a phonological word – must share certain distinctive features (thus "in harmony").
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Wardaman language
Wardaman is an Australian Aboriginal language isolate.
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Whatever (slang)
Whatever is a slang term meaning "whatever you say", "I don't care what you say" or "what will be will be".
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Who (pronoun)
The pronoun who, in English, is an interrogative pronoun and a relative pronoun, used primarily to refer to persons. Interrogative word and who (pronoun) are interrogative words and phrases.
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Word stem
In linguistics, a word stem is a part of a word responsible for its lexical meaning.
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Yes–no question
In linguistics, a yes–no question, also known as a binary question, a polar question, or a general question, is a question whose expected answer is one of two choices, one that provides an affirmative answer to the question versus one that provides a negative answer to the question.
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See also
Interrogative words and phrases
- Eh
- Five Ws
- Indeterminate pronoun
- Interrogative
- Interrogative word
- Interrogatives in Esperanto
- Inverted question and exclamation marks
- Question
- Question mark
- Wh-movement
- Who (pronoun)
- Who, whom?
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrogative_word
Also known as -ever, -soever, How (interrogative), Interrogative Pronoun, Interrogative adverb, Interrogative particle, Interrogative pronouns, Interrogative words, Interrogatives, Q-word, Question word, Question words, So ever, Soever, Wh word, Wh words, Wh-, Wh-expression, Wh-interrogative, Wh-word, Wh-words, Whatsoever, Whichever.
, Russian language, Sentence function, Serbo-Croatian, Standard Chinese, Suffix, Turkish language, Ukrainian language, Umpithamu language, Vowel harmony, Wardaman language, Whatever (slang), Who (pronoun), Word stem, Yes–no question.