Class of sentences in which the hearer is requested to give information about something. Interrogatives can usually be identified by one or more of the following syntactic characteristics: initial position of the verb, interrogative pronoun, question...

As the question, so the answer. (Swedish) Ask a silly question and you get a silly answer. (Russian) Ask no questions, get no lies. (American) Hasty questions require slow answers. (Dutch) He that inquires much, learns much. (Danish) One fool can ask...

// n. One of the traditional sentence types, corresponding to an utterance which, in principle at least, requires a linguistic response from the addressee. The most familiar types of questions are WH-questions like Who were you talking to? and yes-no...

Relative clause introduced by an interrogative pronoun (who, where, why), as well as such words as if, how, etc., that is dependent on a main clause: He wanted to know why she had called him. In contrast to direct interrogatives, indirect...

A question may be either a linguistic expression used to make a request for information, or else the request itself made by such an expression. This information is provided with an answer. Questions are normally put or asked using interrogative...

Massachusetts voters will be asked to approve four initiative petitions -- "ballot questions" -- in next week's election. If approved, the questions would become law. The Globe has frequently opposed the use of initiative petitions to make law in Massachusetts. The history of the...

The Supreme Judicial Court has come to a practical resolution of challenges to several ballot questions by permitting the results to stand even though some voters felt underinformed as they stood in the voting booth. The episode, however, reinforces arguments against promiscuous use of...