Interrogative Sentences
Interrogative sentences differ from the declarative or interrogative ones by some their specific features.
There are two structural types of interrogative sentences in Modern English - general
questions (yes- or no- questions) and special (or wh-) questions. Both of them are characterized by
having partial inversions:
Are we staying here?
Where are we staying?
Besides, the first one has a special (rising) intonation pattern. The second one (wh-
question) has interrogative words. But the intonation pattern of wh-questions is identical with that
of the affirmative sentences.
And it is important to point out that the interrogative sentences require answers (if they are
not rhetorical ones).
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