interrogatives – English Grammar Profiler

• An ‘interrogative’ sentence is a question.
• It is one of the four types of sentences in regards to uses in
  communication.

Are you allowed to say that? Are you attracted to me? Were you born in a barn?

What’s it called?

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Negative interrogative clauses are interrogative sentences that are made negative. They are often used to imply that the speaker is expecting a certain answer or for emphatic effect. For example, “Aren’t you coming?” is a negative interrogative clause because it is a question that is made negative by the word “not”. Here is another difficult

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Let’s start with A1 grammar to explain how to form modal verb questions when asking for something. Here is an affirmative declarative sentence: I can get some help. To form a yes/no question with a modal auxiliary verb, invert the subject and the modal verb I can → Can I  follow it with the bare

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How | What + about + NOUN PHRASE ? = A2 suggesting or offering something to someone | B1 ask for someone’s opinion on a particular subject (EVP) In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 67 in the category of CLAUSES/interrogatives is defined as:

questions with a ‘wh-‘ word as the subject, without an auxiliary verb.

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‘WH-‘ questions expect a reply that supplies information. The wh-word can be a pronoun: What made you think that? (listen to this question) adverb: Where did it go? (listen) or a determiner: Which part? (listen) A search for the most common questions in the iWeb corpus with: _ddq _v _p _v ? 1 WHAT DO YOU THINK? (‘what’

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There are a number of overlapping points when it comes to negative questions in the English Grammar Profile.  At a purely formal level, we can identify an adverb position in a negative question to identify B2, but at usage level, some of these would be considered rhetorical or persuasive strategies found at the more advanced

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There is no evidence of when students can use “which” or “whose”.

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In the English Grammar Profile, B2 point 86 in the category of CLAUSES is defined as: phrases or exclamations where the negative interrogative form of an auxiliary verb is used to express surprise or enthusiasm. This is a real challenge to search for. Surprise and enthusiasm are not something you can formally search for, but

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