the interrogative
noun
grammar
: the form that a phrase or sentence has when it is asking a question
"Is this sentence in the interrogative?" "Yes, it is."
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Shakespeare’s play echoed the interrogative, anxious mood of the late-Elizabethan era; Branagh’s film confronted modern political overreach; Hamnet perhaps fits into our current social-media age by underlining the inclination to share even the most intimate thoughts.
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Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2025
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Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2025
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“The interrogative.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20interrogative. Accessed 21 Dec. 2025.
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