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Interrogative

noun
1.
A sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply.  Synonyms: interrogation, interrogative sentence, question.  "He had trouble phrasing his interrogations"
2.
Some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood.  Synonym: interrogative mood.
adjective
1.
Relating to verbs in the so-called interrogative mood.
2.
Relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation.  Synonym: interrogatory.



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"Interrogative" Quotes from Famous Books



... Eleanor, when Miriam was gone, attached the interrogative, "I wonder whether she does?" The Spences did not feel it incumbent upon them to direct her in the matter; it were just as well if she followed ...
— The Emancipated • George Gissing

... mood; self, first person singular; mind, imperfect tense; eyes, positive; voice, in the superlative degree; nose, the interrogative point. ...
— The Boarding School • Unknown

... steadily. He did not say much, and he never was seen to laugh, but he kept a note-book, and he seemed to contemplate in his own mind, The Ideal American, and to try to live up to that standard. When he did speak, it was in the interrogative, and he pastured his intellect on ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 14, 1893 • Various

... question was the property of a neighbor, and was a most annoying bird. Even my kitten was disturbed by the defiant note. "M-e-w?" said he, in a meek interrogative, as much as to say, ...
— The Junior Classics Volume 8 - Animal and Nature Stories • Selected and arranged by William Patten

... means of communicating with him, the trapper climbed through the narrow opening, and to the top of the tree, where he ensconced himself, just as the steam man uttered its interrogative whistle. ...
— The Huge Hunter - Or, the Steam Man of the Prairies • Edward S. Ellis


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