TYPES AND STRUCTURES OF INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES IN MODERN ENGLISH
Karshiev Ramziddin An English teacher at comprehensive school N 9 in Kamashi district and a postgraduate student in Linguistics ( The English language) at Karshi State University
Keywords:
interrogative sentence, special question, general question, alternative question, disjunctive question, indirect question, echo question and echo tags, explicit alternative question, implicit alternative question, information question, positive tag, negative tag, negative questionAbstract
This article deals with discussing the issues related to the classification of interrogative sentences and the structures of different types of questions. Examples for various kinds of interrogative sentences have been taken from authentic materials such as Pride and Prejudice, The Time Machine , Oxford Idioms Dictionary, Oxford Learner’s Pocket Dictionary as well as from some grammar reference books as Grammarway 4 , English Grammar in Use and Oxford Guide to English Grammar to illustrate the stated point regarding question types.
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