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interrogative sentence

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  1. The kind of sentence that asks a question and uses a question mark: “How can I do that?”


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Enough also appears in some of the interrogative sentences of the dissenting opinion to show that the learned justice who delivered it intended to place the dissent very largely upon the same ground.

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In the case of a negative interrogative sentence the verb is immediately preceded by na=nî + a, whether it begins the sentence or is itself preceded by an interrogative conjunction. 

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Write five interrogative sentences in which shall is used and five in which will is used.

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Shall, in an interrogative sentence, in the first and third persons, consults the will or judgment of another; in the second person, it inquires concerning the intention or future action of another.

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If an interrogative sentence ends with a quotation, the point of interrogation stands outside the inverted commas.

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