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  2. English interrogative words - Wikipedia

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    The English interrogative words (also known as "wh words" or "wh forms") are words in English with a central role in forming interrogative phrases and clauses and in asking questions. The main members associated with open-ended questions are how, what, when, where, which, who, whom, whose, and why, all of which also have -ever forms (e.g ...

  3. Interrogative word - Wikipedia

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    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. They are sometimes called wh-words , because in English most of them start with wh- (compare Five Ws ).

  4. English relative words - Wikipedia

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    The English relative words are words in English used to mark a clause, noun phrase or preposition phrase as relative.The central relative words in English include who, whom, whose, which, why, and while, as shown in the following examples, each of which has the relative clause in bold:

  5. Wh-movement - Wikipedia

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    In the wh-movement, there are additional segments that are added: EPP (extended projection principle) and the Question Feature [+Q] that represents a question sentence. The wh-movement is motivated by a Question Feature/EPP at C (Complementizer), which promotes movement of a wh-word from the canonical base position to Spec-C.

  6. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    a type of secondary school, normally a selective state funded school elementary school (less common today) grill: to cook directly under a dry heat source (US: broil) to question intensely (informal). to interrogate. to cook over a gas or coal fire (UK and US: barbecue) a flat cooking surface a restaurant (freq. as "bar and grill")

  7. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Erotema – rhetorical question; a question is asked to which an answer is not expected. [1] Ethos – a rhetorical appeal to an audience based on the speaker/writer's credibility. Ethopoeia – the act of putting oneself into the character of another to convey that person's feelings and thoughts more vividly.

  8. Question - Wikipedia

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    Enculturated apes Kanzi, Washoe, Sarah and a few others who underwent extensive language training programs (with the use of gestures and other visual forms of communications) successfully learned to answer quite complex questions and requests (including question words "who", "what", "where"), although so far they have failed to learn how to ask ...

  9. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    Non-standard: Cavaliers small forward Luol Deng tried to diffuse all the questions about how emotional it will be facing his former team – the Chicago Bulls – Wednesday night at The Q. [44] Non-standard: After finding the suspected bomb, Pennsylvania state police were called in to diffuse it. [45] desert and dessert.