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Interrogative is a term used in grammar to refer to features that form questions. Thus, an interrogative sentence is a sentence whose grammatical form indicates that it is a question. Such sentences are sometimes said to exhibit an interrogative mood—thus treating interrogative as one of the grammatical moods, specifically a type of epistemic mood. This applies particularly to languages that use different inflected verb forms to make questions. Interrogative sentences can serve as yes–no questions or as ''wh''-questions, the latter being formed using an interrogative word such as ''who'', ''which'', ''where'' or ''how'' to specify the information required. Different languages have different ways of forming questions, including the use of different word order and the insertion of interrogative particles. Questions are also frequently marked by intonation, in particular a rising intonation pattern – in some languages this may be the sole method of distinguishing a yes–no question from a declarative statement. Interrogative mood or other interrogative forms may be denoted by the glossing abbreviation . ==Question types== Interrogative sentences are generally divided between yes–no questions, which ask whether or not something is the case (and invite an answer of the yes/no type), and ''wh''-questions, which specify the information being asked about using a word like ''which'', ''who'', ''how'', etc. An intermediate form is the ''choice question'', ''disjunctive question'' or ''alternative question'', which presents a number of alternative answers, such as "Do you want tea or coffee?" ''Negative questions'' are formed from negative sentences, as in "Aren't you coming?" and "Why does he not answer?" Tag questions are questions "tagged" onto the end of sentences to invite confirmation, as in "She left earlier, didn't she?" Indirect questions (or ''interrogative content clauses'') are subordinate clauses used within sentences to refer to a question (as opposed to ''direct questions'', which are interrogative sentences themselves). An example of an indirect question is ''where Jack is'' in the sentence "I wonder where Jack is." Note that English and many other languages do not use inversion in indirect questions, even though they would in the corresponding direct question ("Where is Jack?"), as described in the following section. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Interrogative」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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