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94 relations: Answer ellipsis, Bloom's taxonomy, Closed-ended question, Concept, Content clause, Cyrillic script, Danish language, David Premack, Debate, Dependent clause, Do-support, Doubt, Encyclopedia of Philosophy, English auxiliaries and contractions, English grammar, Euthanasia, False (logic), Five Ws, French grammar, French language, Gautama Buddha, German grammar, German language, Grammar, Grammatical tense, How Much Land Does a Man Need?, Imperative mood, Indirect speech, Information, Inquiry, Inquiry education, Interrobang, Interrogation, Interrogative, Interrogative word, Interrogatories, Intonation (linguistics), Inversion (linguistics), Inverted question and exclamation marks, Japanese language, Job interview, Joseph Jordania, Kanzi, Language development, Latin alphabet, Leading question, Leo Tolstoy, Loaded question, Logic, Māori people, ..., Multiple choice, No such thing as a stupid question, Norwegian language, Open-ended question, Pākehā, Philosophy, Polish grammar, Pragmatics, Problem solving, Proposition, Prosody (linguistics), Question, Question (disambiguation), Question mark, Quiz, Referring expression, Research, Research question, Rhetorical question, Sarah (chimpanzee), Scientific method, Sentence (linguistics), Sentence function, Socratic method, Spanish language, Speech act, Standard Chinese, Subject (grammar), Sutta Pitaka, Syntax, Tag question, Test (assessment), Theory, Truth, Twenty Questions, Verb, W. W. Norton & Company, Washoe (chimpanzee), Wh-movement, What About Bob?, William Frederick Yeames, Word order, Yes and no, Yes–no question. Expand index (44 more) »
Answer ellipsis
Answer ellipsis (.
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Bloom's taxonomy
Bloom's taxonomy is a set of three hierarchical models used to classify educational learning objectives into levels of complexity and specificity.
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Closed-ended question
Respondents are asked to decide where they fit along a scale continuum.
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Concept
Concepts are mental representations, abstract objects or abilities that make up the fundamental building blocks of thoughts and beliefs.
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Content clause
In grammar, a content clause is a subordinate clause that provides content implied or commented upon by its main clause.
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Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script is a writing system used for various alphabets across Eurasia (particularity in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and North Asia).
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Danish language
Danish (dansk, dansk sprog) is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in Denmark and in the region of Southern Schleswig in northern Germany, where it has minority language status.
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David Premack
David Premack (October 26, 1925 – June 11, 2015) was Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, United States.
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Debate
Debate is a process that involves formal discussion on a particular topic.
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Dependent clause
A dependent clause is a clause that provides a sentence element with additional information, but which cannot stand alone as a sentence.
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Do-support
Do-support (or do-insertion), in English grammar, is the use of the auxiliary verb do, including its inflected forms does and did, to form negated clauses and questions as well as other constructions in which subject–auxiliary inversion is required.
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Doubt
Doubt is a mental state in which the mind remains suspended between two or more contradictory propositions, unable to assent to any of them.
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Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Encyclopedia of Philosophy is one of the major English encyclopedias of philosophy.
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English auxiliaries and contractions
In English grammar, certain verb forms are classified as auxiliary verbs.
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English grammar
English grammar is the way in which meanings are encoded into wordings in the English language.
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Euthanasia
Euthanasia (from εὐθανασία; "good death": εὖ, eu; "well" or "good" – θάνατος, thanatos; "death") is the practice of intentionally ending a life to relieve pain and suffering.
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False (logic)
In logic, false or untrue is the state of possessing negative truth value or a nullary logical connective.
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Five Ws
The Five Ws (sometimes referred to as Five Ws and How, 5W1H, or Six Ws) are questions whose answers are considered basic in information gathering or problem solving.
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French grammar
French grammar is the set of rules by which the French language creates statements, questions and commands.
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French language
French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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Gautama Buddha
Gautama Buddha (c. 563/480 – c. 483/400 BCE), also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni Buddha, or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was an ascetic (śramaṇa) and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.
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German grammar
German grammar is the set of structural rules of the German language, which in many respects is quite similar to that of the other Germanic languages.
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German language
German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.
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Grammar
In linguistics, grammar (from Greek: γραμματική) is the set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language.
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Grammatical tense
In grammar, tense is a category that expresses time reference with reference to the moment of speaking.
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How Much Land Does a Man Need?
"How Much Land Does a Man Require?" (Russian: Много ли человеку земли нужно?, Mnoga li cheloveku zemli nuzhna?) is an 1886 short story by Leo Tolstoy about a man who, in his lust for land, forfeits everything.
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Imperative mood
The imperative mood is a grammatical mood that forms a command or request.
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Indirect speech
Indirect speech is a means of expressing the content of statements, questions or other utterances, without quoting them explicitly as is done in direct speech.
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Information
Information is any entity or form that provides the answer to a question of some kind or resolves uncertainty.
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Inquiry
An inquiry is any process that has the aim of augmenting knowledge, resolving doubt, or solving a problem.
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Inquiry education
Inquiry education (sometimes known as the inquiry method) is a student-centered method of education focused on asking questions.
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Interrobang
The interrobang, also known as the interabang (‽) (often represented by ?! or !?), is a nonstandard punctuation mark used in various written languages and intended to combine the functions of the question mark, or interrogative point, and the exclamation mark, or exclamation point, known in the jargon of printers and programmers as a "bang".
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Interrogation
Interrogation (also called questioning) is interviewing as commonly employed by law enforcement officers, military personnel, and intelligence agencies with the goal of eliciting useful information.
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Interrogative
Interrogative is a term used in grammar to refer to features that form questions.
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Interrogative word
An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, when, where, who, whom, why, and how.
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Interrogatories
In law, interrogatories (also known as requests for further information) are a formal set of written questions propounded by one litigant and required to be answered by an adversary in order to clarify matters of fact and help to determine in advance what facts will be presented at any trial in the case.
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Intonation (linguistics)
In linguistics, intonation is variation in spoken pitch when used, not for distinguishing words (a concept known as tone), but, rather, for a range of other functions such as indicating the attitudes and emotions of the speaker, signalling the difference between statements and questions, and between different types of questions, focusing attention on important elements of the spoken message and also helping to regulate conversational interaction.
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Inversion (linguistics)
In linguistics, inversion is any of several grammatical constructions where two expressions switch their canonical order of appearance, that is, they invert.
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Inverted question and exclamation marks
Inverted question marks (¿) and exclamation marks (Commonwealth English) or exclamation points (American English) (¡) are punctuation marks used to begin interrogative and exclamatory sentences (or clauses), respectively, in written Spanish and sometimes also in languages which have cultural ties with Spanish, such as in older standards of Galician (now it is optional and not recommended) and the Waray language.
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Japanese language
is an East Asian language spoken by about 128 million people, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language.
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Job interview
A job interview is an interview consisting of a conversation between a job applicant and a representative of an employer which is conducted to assess whether the applicant should be hired.
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Joseph Jordania
Joseph Jordania (born February 12, 1954 and also known under the misspelling of Joseph Zhordania) is an Australian–Georgian ethnomusicologist and evolutionary musicologist and professor.
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Kanzi
Kanzi (born October 28, 1980), also known by the lexigram (from the character 太), is a male bonobo who has been featured in several studies on great ape language.
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Language development
Language development is a process starting early in human life.
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Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet or the Roman alphabet is a writing system originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.
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Leading question
In common law systems that rely on testimony by witnesses, a leading question or suggestive interrogation is a question that suggests the particular answer or contains the information the examiner is looking to have confirmed.
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Leo Tolstoy
Count Lyov (also Lev) Nikolayevich Tolstoy (also Лев) Николаевич ТолстойIn Tolstoy's day, his name was written Левъ Николаевичъ Толстой.
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Loaded question
A loaded question or complex question fallacy is a question that contains a controversial or unjustified assumption (e.g., a presumption of guilt).
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Logic
Logic (from the logikḗ), originally meaning "the word" or "what is spoken", but coming to mean "thought" or "reason", is a subject concerned with the most general laws of truth, and is now generally held to consist of the systematic study of the form of valid inference.
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Māori people
The Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand.
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Multiple choice
Multiple choice is a form of an objective assessment in which respondents are asked to select only correct answers out of the choices from a list.
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No such thing as a stupid question
"(There's) no such thing as a stupid question" is a popular phrase that has had a long history.
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Norwegian language
Norwegian (norsk) is a North Germanic language spoken mainly in Norway, where it is the official language.
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Open-ended question
An open-ended question cannot be answered with a "yes" or "no" response, or with a static response.
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Pākehā
Pākehā (or Pakeha) is a Māori-language term for New Zealanders of European descent.
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Philosophy
Philosophy (from Greek φιλοσοφία, philosophia, literally "love of wisdom") is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.
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Polish grammar
The grammar of the Polish language is characterized by a high degree of inflection, and has relatively free word order, although the dominant arrangement is subject–verb–object (SVO).
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Pragmatics
Pragmatics is a subfield of linguistics and semiotics that studies the ways in which context contributes to meaning.
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Problem solving
Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, to find solutions to problems.
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Proposition
The term proposition has a broad use in contemporary analytic philosophy.
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Prosody (linguistics)
In linguistics, prosody is concerned with those elements of speech that are not individual phonetic segments (vowels and consonants) but are properties of syllables and larger units of speech.
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Question
A question is a linguistic expression used to make a request for information, or the request made using such an expression.
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Question (disambiguation)
A question may be either a linguistic expression used to make a request for information, or the request itself.
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Question mark
The question mark (also known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates an interrogative clause or phrase in many languages.
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Quiz
A quiz is a form of game or mind sport, in which the players (as individuals or in teams) attempt to answer questions correctly.
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Referring expression
In linguistics, a referring expression (RE) is any noun phrase, or surrogate for a noun phrase, whose function in discourse is to identify some individual object.
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Research
Research comprises "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications." It is used to establish or confirm facts, reaffirm the results of previous work, solve new or existing problems, support theorems, or develop new theories.
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Research question
Specifying the research question is the methodological point of departure of scholarly research in both the natural and social sciences.
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Rhetorical question
A rhetorical question is a figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked to make a point rather than to elicit an answer.
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Sarah (chimpanzee)
Sarah is an enculturated research chimpanzee whose cognitive skills are documented in The Mind of an Ape, by David Premack and Ann James Premack (1983).
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Scientific method
Scientific method is an empirical method of knowledge acquisition, which has characterized the development of natural science since at least the 17th century, involving careful observation, which includes rigorous skepticism about what one observes, given that cognitive assumptions about how the world works influence how one interprets a percept; formulating hypotheses, via induction, based on such observations; experimental testing and measurement of deductions drawn from the hypotheses; and refinement (or elimination) of the hypotheses based on the experimental findings.
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Sentence (linguistics)
In non-functional linguistics, a sentence is a textual unit consisting of one or more words that are grammatically linked.
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Sentence function
In linguistics, sentence function refers to a speaker's purpose in uttering a specific sentence, phrase, or clause.
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Socratic method
The Socratic method, also can be known as maieutics, method of elenchus, elenctic method, or Socratic debate, is a form of cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to draw out ideas and underlying presumptions.
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Spanish language
Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.
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Speech act
A speech act in linguistics and the philosophy of language is an utterance that has performative function in language and communication.
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Standard Chinese
Standard Chinese, also known as Modern Standard Mandarin, Standard Mandarin, or simply Mandarin, is a standard variety of Chinese that is the sole official language of both China and Taiwan (de facto), and also one of the four official languages of Singapore.
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Subject (grammar)
The subject in a simple English sentence such as John runs, John is a teacher, or John was hit by a car is the person or thing about whom the statement is made, in this case 'John'.
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Sutta Pitaka
The Sutta Pitaka (or Suttanta Pitaka; Basket of Discourse; cf Sanskrit सूत्र पिटक) is the second of the three divisions of the Tripitaka or Pali Canon, the Pali collection of Buddhist writings of Theravada Buddhism.
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Syntax
In linguistics, syntax is the set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure of sentences in a given language, usually including word order.
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Tag question
A tag question (also known as tail question) is a grammatical structure in which a declarative or an imperative statement is turned into interrogative fragment (the "tag").
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Test (assessment)
A test or examination (informally, exam or evaluation) is an assessment intended to measure a test-taker's knowledge, skill, aptitude, physical fitness, or classification in many other topics (e.g., beliefs).
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Theory
A theory is a contemplative and rational type of abstract or generalizing thinking, or the results of such thinking.
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Truth
Truth is most often used to mean being in accord with fact or reality, or fidelity to an original or standard.
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Twenty Questions
Twenty Questions is a spoken parlor game which encourages deductive reasoning and creativity.
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Verb
A verb, from the Latin verbum meaning word, is a word (part of speech) that in syntax conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand).
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W. W. Norton & Company
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Washoe (chimpanzee)
Washoe (c. September 1965 – October 30, 2007) was a female common chimpanzee who was the first non-human to learn to communicate using American Sign Language as part of a research experiment on animal language acquisition.
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Wh-movement
In linguistics, wh-movement (also known as wh-fronting or wh-extraction or long-distance dependency) concerns special rules of syntax, observed in many languages around the world, involving the placement of interrogative words.
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What About Bob?
What About Bob? is a 1991 American black comedy film directed by Frank Oz, and starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss.
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William Frederick Yeames
William Frederick Yeames (18 December 1835 – 3 May 1918) was a British painter best known for his oil-on-canvas problem picture "And When Did You Last See Your Father?", which depicts the son of a Royalist being questioned by Parliamentarians during the English Civil War.
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Word order
In linguistics, word order typology is the study of the order of the syntactic constituents of a language, and how different languages can employ different orders.
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Yes and no
Yes and no, or word pairs with a similar usage, are expressions of the affirmative and the negative, respectively, in several languages including English.
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Yes–no question
In linguistics, a yes–no question, formally known as a polar question or a general question, is a question whose expected answer is either "yes" or "no".
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question
