Interrogation

1. Introduction
2. Absolute interrogatives
         a) Non-manual components
         b) ‘Yes-no’ sign
         c) Repetition of the pronominal sign
         d) Alternative interrogatives
3. Partial interrogatives
         a) Non-manual component
         b) Interrogative signs
4. Rhetorical questions

 

 

 

 

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Interrogative signs typically come at the end of the partial interrogative sentence, although, exceptionally, may not appear at all, as is the case in the following examples:

    "What colour is it?"
    "What time is it?"
    "How old is he/she?"
    "What does he/she look like?"