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	Question mark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A question mark (or, less commonly, an interrogation point or eroteme) is a punctuation mark that replaces the period at the end of an interrogative sentence.
		Another hypothesis about the origin of the question mark proposes that the mark originated in the 9th century, when it appeared as a point followed by the curvy bit written slanted (similar to the tilde, although the tilde was tilted more upward to the right).
		In a sentence containg a series of questions, the interrogation point may be placed after each question, or else reserved for the end with commas or semicolons marking off the questions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Question_mark (989 words)

	'Grammar' @ encyclopaediaOnline: the FREE online encyclopaedia (encyclopedia), dictionary, and grammar reference site
		The science which treats of the principles of language; the study of forms of speech, and their relations to one another; the art concerned with the right use and application of the rules of a language, in speaking or writing.
		A formal definition of the syntactic structure of a language (see syntax), normally given in terms of production rules which specify the order of constituents and their sub-constituents in a sentence (a well-formed string in the language).
		A grammar can be used either to parse a sentence (see parser) or to generate one.
	www.encyclopaediaonline.com /grammar.html (518 words)

	Sentence Types (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		There are four types of sentences in English: declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory.
		It is the most common sentence in writing, and it ends with a period.
		The purpose of this sentence is to issue a request or command.
	www.delmar.edu /engl/wrtctr/handouts/sentencetypes.htm (230 words)

	[No title]
		In one kind, the question is asked by varying the subject and predicate of a declarative sentence-either in tone of voice alone or in word-order.
		sentences which do not contain interrogative words ask questions by means of a shift in word-order.
		The variation in word-order can best be understood by changing declarative sentences to interrogative sentences and observing the shifting which must take place to accomplish the change.
	www.tutorpal.com /eng097/pg73.html (306 words)

	Report Submitted to FAMSI - David Bolles
		Interrogative sentences introduced by interrogative pronouns/adverbs have already been looked at in a limited way in Section 45, 46, and 47.
		The second is by inserting the interrogative particle ua in the interrogative sentence.
		In those sentences in which the verb has an auxiliary verb tense indicator the interrogative particle is most frequently placed between the auxiliary verb tense indicator and the verb directly in front of the pronoun.
	www.famsi.org /reports/96072/grammar/section21.htm (1102 words)

	Kinds of Sentences
		An interrogative sentence ends with a question mark.
		An exclamatory sentence ends with an exclamation mark.
		Sometimes the subject of an imperative sentence (you) is understood.
	www.rhlschool.com /eng3n21.htm (102 words)

	Daily Grammar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Declarative, imperative, or interrogative sentences can be made into exclamatory sentences by punctuating them with an exclamation point.
		Interrogative sentences many times have the subject between the parts of the verb phrase.
		Sometimes a sentence is in inverted order so the subject may come in the middle or at the end of the sentence.
	www.dailygrammar.com /091to095.shtml (972 words)

	Re: From Oz to Kiwi
		But for negative sentences the stress is the last word: eg "I am not in Sydney" becomes " man dar Sydney neestam" You may need to practice this as it is not that easy to convey this phonetically.
		The interrogative sentences are easy to pick up in spoken conversation due to the inquisitive tone of the sentence.
		However, the above words do not appear at the start of the sentence, which make it difficult for a reader of the sentence to detect the interrogative sentence straight away, only to find out that the sentence is interrogative half way through the sentence, or by noticing a question mark at the end.
	www.arizonapersian.com /learnpersian/_disc3/0000039c.htm (567 words)

	Wh-movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wh-movement or wh-fronting is a syntactic phenomenon whereby interrogative words (sometimes called wh-words) appear at the beginning of an interrogative sentence.
		The term wh-movement is due to the fact that most English interrogative words start with wh-, for example, what, where, why, etc. The term wh-movement is applied universally, even when the interrogative words of a given language (such as French) do not start with wh-.
		In the case where the wh-word is a determiner such as which or whose, pied-piping refers to the fact that the wh-determiner appears sentence initially along with its complement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wh-movement (848 words)

	English Grammar Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A sentence is said to be in the active voice when the subject is the peformer of the action of the verb.
		A sentence is said to be in the passive voice when the subject is the receiver of the action of the verb.
		In a sentence the subject is the person or thing that performs the action of the verb.
	www.ctspanish.com /words/areview/areview.htm (1048 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The second difference is that, in declarative sentences, topic has a L* Nuclear Pitch Accent (NPA) followed by a H%, whereas focus has a H* NPA followed by a L%; in interrogatives, the topic NPA is H* followed by L% and the focus NPA is L* followed by the HL% of Greek polar questions.
		Method Ten versions of the same sentence (shown in Table 1) were used: four declarative and four interrogative, differing in the location of focus (on the second, third, fourth or fifth words), and two neutral ones for control, again declarative and interrogative.
		Furthermore, as in declarative focus sentences, all post-nuclear pitch accents are de-accented, but the H phrase accent does not undergo de-accenting, supporting the claim in [2] that this tone is not a pitch accent.
	www.bol.ucla.edu /~marybalt/papers/0748.doc (2712 words)

	Welcome to Sentinel -Learn Assamese section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Interestingly enough, the relationship between sentence classes (declarative, interrogative, etc.) and their corresponding functions (statements, questions, etc.) are not as rigid or water-tight in Assamese as is made to appear from the description given above.
		We made a distinction between equational and non-equational sentences mainly from the presence or absence of the verb in the structure.
		In Assamese, the negative sentence is derived by the insertion of the negative particle ò na.
	www.sentinelassam.com /sentinel_en/assamlesson16.htm (922 words)

	Interrogative Sentence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		An interrogative sentence is a sentence that asks a direct question.
		It is punctuated with a question mark at the end.
		In English an interrogative sentence normally changes the word order so that the verb or part of the verb comes before the subject.
	englishplus.com /grammar/00000343.htm (44 words)

	Subject: The noun that tells who or what the sentence is about
		Predicate: the portion of a sentence or clause that tells something about the subject, consisting of a verb and possibly including objects, modifiers, and /or verb complements.
		Interrogative adjectives: an adjective used in asking a question, what and which.
		Paragraph: a distinct division within a written work that may consist of several sentences or just one, that expresses something relevant to the whole work but is complete within itself.
	wwwfac.worcester.edu /owl/teacher/barbara.htm (698 words)

	Truth [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Sentences are linguistic items: they exist in some language or other, either in a natural language such as English or in an artificial language such as a computer language.
		By choosing propositions rather than sentences as the bearers of truth-values, this relativity to human conventions does not apply to truth, a point that many philosophers would consider to be a virtue in a theory of truth.
		The quoted sentence is said to be an element of the object language, and the outer (or containing) sentence which uses the predicate "true" is in the metalanguage.
	www.iep.utm.edu /t/truth.htm (9250 words)

	Kzints'utng Introduction
		A Kzints'utng sentence expresses a complete thought through a series or group of words, A simple sentence consists of two important parts, the subject (a noun or pronoun) and the verb.
		Ocassionally, an experienced writer will place the topic sentence at the end of the paragraph, but wherever it is placed, the topic sentence should catch the reader's attention so he will continue reading.
		The period marks the end of a declarative sentence (a statement of fact) or an imperative sentence (a command).
	www.angelfire.com /scifi/mta/kzintintro.html (1101 words)

	Basic English Sentence Structures - Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Conditional sentences are used to describe the consequences of a specific action, or the dependency between events or conditions.
		Interrogative sentences are terminated by a question mark.
		The subject of the sentence "Lions and tigers growled." is the compound subject "lions and tigers".
	www.scientificpsychic.com /grammar/enggramg.html (1180 words)

	CLASPnet : 3.3.3.1 Sentential Mood
		Figure 3.10 shows the separate percentages for the three mood output units (the data are from the training corpus and the first test corpus, and for a tolerance of 0.2 -- the precise numbers can again be found in Appendix 5).
		From the perspective of Figure 3.10, the performance for the Interrogative unit would be more than 99% -- after all, the unit is correctly off for nearly all the input patterns.
		From another point of view, the performance is 0% as none of the patterns for which the output unit should have been on did actually lead to an activation value of 1.
	www.istari.org /~ezra/msc/3331.html (951 words)

	HANDBOOK OF LOGIC AND LANGUAGE, Elsevier Science, 1996, Introduction Chapter 19 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Note that in the examples just given, in which a question is asked by means of a sentence in the imperative mood or in the indicative mood, rather than by the use of a proper interrogative, embedded interrogatives occurred.
		This points towards the existence of questions as a separate kind of entity, to be distinguished both from the linguistic object that an interrogative sentence is, and from the pragmatic entity that the act of asking a question constitutes.
		The study of interrogative sentences obviously belongs to the syntactic part of linguistics, and the study of interrogative acts to that of pragmatics, in particular to speech act theory.
	www.elsevier.com /homepage/sac/hll/prefch19.htm (748 words)

	INTONATION AND INTERROGATION IN ENGLISH: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The example sentences above all express the same proposition, they all talk about the addressee catching a duck, but the sentence types are syntactically different, and each one has a pecific conventional conversational use, that is, their illocutionary force is the same.
		All the sentences in 24-28 have a broad focus can be said ‘out of the blue’, without specific contextual presuppositionas, and in that sense they are all neutral and conform to the defaults for these sentence types.
		Her results suggest, as she notes, that there may not be any ‘natural’ associations of intonation and sentence type in that declaratives and wh-questions do not have a systematic fall and y/n-questions a systematic rise.
	www.univ-pau.fr /ANGLAIS/alaes/blum.htm (3629 words)

	Sentence Vocabulary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A sentence is a group of words containing a subject and a finite verb and expressing a complete thought.
		A compound-complex sentence contains at least two independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses: We had hoped to go climbing, but the trip was postponed because she sprained her ankle.
		A comma splice is a name we teachers use for a sentence that uses a comma as the punctuation mark between independent clauses.
	www.geocities.com /soho/nook/2844/Sentences.html (395 words)

	Menu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The difference between a declarative sentence and an interrogative sentence is that the former ends with a period or a falling intonation, but the latter ends with a question mark or a rising intonation.
		In an imperative sentence the subject you is omitted, and a verb and an object appear in that order.
		A passive sentence is formed from an active sentence by inserting the verb es in front of the verb of the active sentence, and changing the order of a subject and an object.
	www.unish.org /unish/STATIC/english/gram_detail.html (465 words)

	Grammar - Activity 29b
		In this sentence, the quem changes to quendam to mean "a certain..." Check sentence number 4 to see why there is this spelling change if you do not recall the reason.
		As with number 7 sentence, the interrogative word is again an adjective.
		Quam is used to mean how as well as being the relative or interrogative pronoun or adjective in the feminine sg.
	www.dl.ket.org /latin3/grammar/activity29b.htm (654 words)

	INTERROGATIVE - Definition
		[n] a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply; "he asked a direct question"; "he had trouble phrasing his interrogations"
		[adj] (grammar) relating to verbs in the so-called interrogative mood; "not all questions have an interrogative construction"
		interrogatif.] Denoting a question; expressed in the form of a question; as, an interrogative sentence; an interrogative pronoun.
	www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/interrogative (144 words)

	Report Submitted to FAMSI - David Bolles
		The negation of the above sentences follows the rule shown in Section 131 on simple subjects: the negator goes in front of and is tied to the verb tense.
		As a sentence gets more complex, the flexibility in positioning clauses gets more limited, mainly because it becomes increasingly unclear what a clause is modifying if it is not positioned near that which it is modifying.
		Sentences in which the imperative tense is used is usually begun with the imperative tense verb.
	www.famsi.org /reports/96072/gmrsrc5c.htm (5689 words)

	HT's research on STMs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		I am developing the idea that declaratives, interrogatives, and imperatives each have an inherent constant meaning that connects the proposition expressed to the context of speaker and addressee in which the sentence is uttered.
		The proposed STMs for both declaratives and interrogatives have the form IMPERATIVE(speaker, addressee, COMMONGROUND(__)), where '__' is the meaning of an embedded that-clause for declaratives (proposition), and the meaning of an embedded question (the true answer) for interrogatives, and where COMMONGROUND is Stalnaker's notion of the common ground.
		Intuitively: When we use a declarative or an interrogative, we call on the addressee to make something common ground – a given proposition in the case of a declarative, and the true answer to the question in the case of an interrogative.
	www2.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de /~hubert/Home/res1_illoc.html (432 words)

	Sentences and Their Parts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		An interrogative sentence is a sentence that asks something.
		An imperative sentence is a sentence is a sentence that gives a command.
		An exclamatory sentence is a sentence that shows excitement or strong feelings.
	webschool.wash.k12.ut.us:16080 /language/lessons/foursentences.html (68 words)

	Welcome to Sentinel -Learn Assamese section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The function of an interrogative sentence is to ask a question.
		Since the structure of this sentence type is declarative, we shall comment on their functions only.
		This sentence is more in line with what is known as a tag question in English, and we shall take up this type of question soon after this discussion.
	www.sentinelassam.com /sentinel_en/assamlesson18.htm (688 words)

	SENTENCE - Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		clause, complex sentence, compound sentence, constituent, convict, court-martial, declarative sentence, declaratory sentence, declare, final decision, final judgment, foredoom, grammatical constituent, hard time, interrogation, interrogative, interrogative sentence, linguistic string, murder conviction, question, rape conviction, reprobate, robbery conviction, run-on sentence, string, string of words, term, topic sentence, word string
		A simple sentence consists of one subject and one finite verb; as, ``The Lord reigns.'' A compound sentence contains two or more subjects and finite verbs, as in this verse: He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
		To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.
	www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/sentence (387 words)

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