interrogative

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Her tone was coldly interrogative, her eyes hostile, as she stared steadily at Grace Grace looked up from her work and calmly studied the pretty, belligerent girl standing before her.

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  1. adjective Asking a question or being of the nature of a question: an interrogative raising of the eyebrows.
  2. adjective Of, relating to, or being an element or construction used to ask a question: an interrogative adverb; an interrogative particle.
  3. noun A word or form used to ask a question.

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  • Identify the type of each sentence (declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory) Identify the structure of each sentence (simple, compound, compound-complex, fragment, run-on). —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • The former tends to be smug, conservative, hierarchical, even oligarchic in its propensity, while the latter tends to be progressive, dissidential, interrogative, and horizontal-democratic in its inclination. —  Vanguard News
  • Wikipedia describes it well: "a nonstandard English-language punctuation mark intended to combine the functions of the question mark (also called the interrogative point) and the exclamation mark or exclamation point (known in printers 'jargon as the bang)". —  Daring Fireball
  • In the Cold War, the C.I.A. used coercive interrogative techniques including physical and psych ops to discover information. —  Booker Rising
  • When he did speak, it was in the interrogative, and he pastured his intellect on our high-class Magazines LINCOLN B. discovered many things, and noted them down for his work on Social Dry Rot in Europe_, but one matter puzzled him. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 14, 1893
 

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  1. = French interrogatif = Provencal enterrogatiu = Spanish Portuguese Italian interrogativo, from Latin interrogativus, serving to question, from interrogare, question: see interrogate.
 

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/ɪntəˈrɑgətɪv/
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