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/ɪntˈɛɹəɡətˌɪv/
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ADJECTIVE
- relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation
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relating to verbs in the so-called interrogative mood
not all questions have an interrogative construction
NOUN
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a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply
he had trouble phrasing his interrogations
he asked a direct question - some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood
How To Use interrogative In A Sentence
- I tried that noise she so often used in her interrogatives and she chittered a bit.
- Whatever the reason, I'll be wishing him well because, in our adversarial, interrogative culture, there's still a place for Parkinson's gentlemanly, self-effacing approach.
- While some scholars argue for re-enactment's interrogative possibilities, these possibilities tend to be circumscribed.
- (algo) _ when interrogative; _ninguno, ninguna cosa (nada) _ when negative; and _cualquiera, cualquiera cosa_ when affirmative, as -- Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)
- Understood in this weak way, it is unexceptionable to construe the interrogative mood as used for asking questions, the imperatival mood as used for issuing commands, and so on. Saving Prostitutes in Sevilla
- The possibility also exists that the interrogative techniques used by detectives may have improperly influenced Jeffrey's recollection of the events.
- While you're wrestling with the interrogative particles of Mandarin you could, for example, reflect on the fact that Scotland is on its way to becoming the greatest small country in the world.
- There is nothing in the nature of catechization which would require the use of the interrogative form in such a text-book, and accordingly the thetical form has for years been employed by numerous writers of text-books for the catechetical class in An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism
- If the lover does in fact express his love via a sonnet, then the octave (represented here by the interrogative symbol raised to the eighth power) might encode the query: “Who do I love?” — to which the sestet (represented here by the letter U raised to the sixth power) might encode the reply: “You!” Quick Review 07 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
- Williams has a comparable interrogative edge, a sense of the difficulty of doing justice to the complexity and sheer intractability of reality, and of the unavoidability of tragedy, conflict and fragmentariness.
