Interrogative Adverbs

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• Interrogative adverb or interrogative adjective?
• Direct or indirect questions
• Examples of interrogative adverbs
• Examples of sentences with interrogative adverbs

The interrogative adverbs they make up a special category of adverbs whose distinctive function is to act as headings for interrogative sentences. For example: what how when.

This is a category very similar to that of exclamatory adverbs, which act as headings for exclamatory sentences.

In both cases it deals with the morphological aspect of the same kind of word, relative pronouns, which, in the graphic, are given an accent due to their emphatic character.

• It can help you: Interrogative sentences

Interrogative adverb or interrogative adjective?

According to the sentence structure that follows in the question, the same pronoun acquires the syntactic function of interrogative adverb or interrogative adjective.

Adverbs are invariable morphemes that, in the context of the sentence, can modify a verb, an adjective, an adverb or an entire proposition. For example: How much did you run? / How much did they run?

Adjectives, on the contrary, are variable and must agree in gender and number with the noun they modify. For example: How old were you? / How much salt do I add?

Direct or indirect questions

We could say that every time a question is formulated other than the ones that expect a 'yes' or 'no' answer, interrogative adverbs or interrogative adjectives are used.

It should be borne in mind, on the other hand, that the question should be asked directly and there should be no antecedent. For example: Where is my phone? ("where" is an interrogative adverb)

In indirect speech questions, on the other hand, the same word has an interrogative intention but does not function as an interrogative adverb but as a pronoun. For example: QI want to know where my phone is. ("where" is an emphatic pronoun)

• It can help you: Interrogative sentences

Examples of interrogative adverbs

1. Who
2. How
3. Why
4. How
5. When
6. Which
7. What
8. Who
9. How much
10. How many

Examples of sentences with interrogative adverbs

1. ¿Who play forward at Arsenal?
2. ¿How do you live in a city as populous as Mexico City?
3. ¿Why did they leave the party so early?
4. ¿How intense is the pain you feel in that knee?
5. ¿How Would you feel if you were suddenly assigned to another branch?
6. ¿Where could the criminals escape in that isolated prison?
7. ¿When will you understand that this is not a way to live?
8. ¿What so far from home is work?
9. ¿Which of all those documents is the original?
10. ¿When will I get a new job?
11. ¿Who will be the new forward of Barcelona?
12. ¿What better than a house on the beach, to spend the summer?
13. ¿How make him see that he is about to make a big mistake?
14. ¿Who but can Paul make them see reason?
15. ¿Why decided to fire him?
16. ¿How can you think that?
17. ¿How do you think they played?
18. ¿Which is the language more difficult?
19. ¿What how difficult will the exam be?
20. ¿Which will it be richer?
21. ¿Why Mondays do not work?
22. ¿Who said you couldn't?
23. ¿Where will it be Juan's birthday?
24. ¿How much more will I have to wait for you?
25. ¿What Does it matter what José thinks?
26. ¿Who want to take over a place that has fallen apart?
27. ¿Where will the holidays happen this year?
28. ¿Which Will it suit me better, blue or green?
29. ¿How will we get to the airport?
30. ¿How much would you pay for one of his oil paintings?
31. ¿How is this situation resolved?
32. ¿What have to add to these comments?
33. ¿How much know the new intern?
34. ¿How much did you learn in the marketing course?
35. ¿Where are your grandparents alive?
36. ¿What Did you think of the movie we saw yesterday?
37. ¿Where did you leave the car parked?
38. ¿When will the guests arrive?
39. ¿Who is the current president of Colombia?
40. ¿Who are they responsible for this situation?
41. ¿How did you do in the exam?
42. ¿What role of bees in the ecosystem?
43. ¿What do your parents have in common?
44. ¿What did they give you for your birthday?
45. ¿What ice cream flavor are you going to ask?
46. ¿How much long does a giraffe live?
47. ¿How is your nephew's name?
48. ¿How much will this concert last?
49. ¿What did you order for lunch?
50. ¿Who is the doctor who treats your child?

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