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Name the five ingredients demanded by one of Basil Fawlty's guests to make the infamous Waldorf Salad. A widespread and accepted use of questions in an educational context is the assessment of students' knowledge through exams. Probably you both can think of quite a few from each category. And probably plenty of tech that has made the world better and worse at the same time.

The term rhetorical question may be colloquially applied to a number of uses of questions where the speaker does not seek or expect an answer (perhaps because the answer is implied or obvious), such as: I like this question because it gets to the point of what they really want to be doing. Not what they have to be doing. You can find out a lot about a person by learning what they want to do when they aren’t obligated to be doing anything in particular. As a child, what did you think would be awesome about being an adult, but isn’t as awesome as you thought it would be?

If you were hired to show tourists what life is really like where you live, what would you show them / have them do? Question Quest is a fantasy novel by American writer Piers Anthony, the fourteenth book of the Xanth series. [1] Plot summary [ edit ]

Open questions require a little more thought and generally encourage wider discussion and elaboration. They can’t be answered with a simple yes or no response. For example: ‘what do you think of your boss?’ Or ‘why did you choose that meal?’ What was the last situation where some weird stuff went down and everyone acted like it was normal, and you weren’t sure if you were crazy or everyone around you was crazy? Question (C) indicates speaker's commitment to the truth of the statement that somebody killed the cat, but no commitment as to whether John did it or did not. [9] Punctuation [ edit ] Paul Warren (2017) "The interpretation of prosodic variability in the context of accompanying sociophonetic cues", Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 8(1), 11. doi: 10.5334/labphon.92 (Paper presented at the Third Experimental and Theoretical Approaches to Prosody workshop)A tag question is a polar question formed by the addition of an interrogative fragment (the "tag") to a (typically declarative) clause. For example: Francis Bacon It is to be to question , whether it be lawful for Christian princes to make an invasive war simply for the propagation of the faith. In some languages, such as English, or Russian, a rising declarative is a sentence which is syntactically declarative but is understood as a question by the use of a rising intonation. For example, "You're not using this?" If the person seems into deeper conversations, you could give this one a go. 201. What old trend is coming

bit from 10 or 20 years ago. It’s always fun to talk about goals from the past. 213. How much do you plan At the level of syntax, the interrogative is a type of clause which is characteristically associated with questions, and defined by certain grammatical rules (such as subject–auxiliary inversion in English) which vary by language. Children are also taught and encouraged to ask questions to find out further information, usually during reading comprehension and topic (history and geography) lessons.Loos, Eugene E.; Anderson, Susan; Day, Dwight H. Jr.; Jordan, Paul C.; Wingate, J. Douglas (eds.). "What is an alternative question?". Glossary of linguistic terms. SIL International. From Middle English question, questioun, questiun, from Anglo-Norman questiun, from Old French question, from Latin quaestiōnem, accusative of quaestiō ( “ a seeking, investigation, inquiry, question ” ), from quaerere ( “ to seek, ask, inquire ” ) [1], of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Italic *kʷaizeō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂- ( “ to acquire ” ).

On the other hand, there are English dialects (Southern Californian English, New Zealand English) in which rising declaratives (the " uptalk") do not constitute questions. [8] However it is established that in English there is a distinction between assertive rising declaratives and inquisitive rising declaratives, distinguished by their prosody. This one is really fun, especially if the person you are talking to is in any way creative. There are basically endless amounts of crazy holidays you could come up with.

In obsolete terms the difference between quest and question

if they really liked the book, well now you’ve got a good recommendation. 102. What was your favorite In Spanish an additional inverted mark is placed at the beginning: ¿Cómo está usted? "How are you?". An uncommon variant of the question mark is the interrobang (‽), which combines the function of the question mark and the exclamation mark.