Speech Pathology Dictionary – Q Terms

• Interrogative Sentence is a sentence with a grammatical form that indicates that a question is being asked.
  • Wh questions – Questions that start with an interrogative word – who, what, which, where, when, whose, why and how. Example; Where are you going? Who are you with? When is the game.
  • Yes – No questions – An interrogative construction that requires a yes (affirmative) or no (negative) response. Example; Is that your car? Does the game start at 7pm?
  • Choice questions – (Alternative questions) Example; Do you want Pepsi or Coke?
  • Negative questions – Example; Aren’t you coming?
  • Tag questions – Example; My mother-in-law is leaving tonight, isn’t she?
  • Inversion question – when an auxiliary verb changes places with the subject to form a question or request for information. Example; Are you coming home?
  • Intonation question – a variation of spoken pitch that signals that the statement is actually a question. Example; She saw it on TV? with a rising intonation on ↗T and ↗V.

• Rhetorical questions – are used to make a point not to get an response. Example; So, you weren’t paying attention after all?
• Imperative – a grammatical mood that forms a commands or requests. Example; Tell me a story.

Link 1: Wikipedia – Questions