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    WH-question
    noun
    a question containing a WH-word, often in initial position, and calling for an item of information to be supplied, as
  • WH question
    WH question
    noun
    a question in English to which an appropriate answer is to give information rather than to answer "yes" or "no": typically introduced by the word who, which, what, where, when, or how

WH-question

American  
[duhb-uhl-yoo-eych-kwes-chuhn] / ˈdʌb əl juˈeɪtʃˌkwɛs tʃən /
Or wh-question

noun

Grammar.
  1. a question containing a WH-word, often in initial position, and calling for an item of information to be supplied, as

    Where do you live?


WH question British  

noun

  1. Also called: information question.  a question in English to which an appropriate answer is to give information rather than to answer "yes" or "no": typically introduced by the word who, which, what, where, when, or how

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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