Descriptive Questions

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• Examples of descriptive questions

The descriptive questions they ask about the characteristics of a topic that is being investigated. For example: What is a cell like? What are the characteristics of isosceles triangles? What is a parliamentary democracy like?

These questions are considered open because their answer, unlike the closed ones, is not punctual or direct, but rather they aim to obtain an explanation and development on the question consulted.

Descriptive questions seek to know a concept, a person or a situation from the observations of the respondent or the result of having collected information about it.

These types of questions are usually the kickoff of an investigation.

• See also: Interrogative statements

Examples of descriptive questions

1. How is your new bike?
2. What are the main characteristics of prokaryotic cells?
3. How would you describe the new fragrance we launched?
4. What is a republican system like?
5. What are the main characteristics of ferrous metals?
6. What are evergreens like?
7. What is it like to live in Washington?
8. What are the main characteristics of Soviet cinema?
9. What was it like to be a slave in Ancient Greece?
10. What measures will the Government take to reactivate the economy?
11. What are the characteristics of the Latin American boom?
12. What is Waldorf education?
13. How is the food in Spain?
14. What does it mean to be a member of this club?
15. What would it be like to live on the Moon?
16. What do children do in kindergarten?
17. How is your routine?
18. What are the main characteristics of reptiles?
19. What is it like to work for another country?
20. How does a combustion engine work?
21. What was your grandfather like?
22. What are the peculiarities of Doric columns?
23. What is it like to study in a boarding school?
24. What was it like to live in a Gulag?
25. What are the highlights of the Marshall Plan?
26. What is Armenian food?
27. What characterizes an expository text?
28. What is life like in Alaska?
29. What is done in Ramadan?
30. How do you prepare to run a marathon?
31. How do they celebrate Christmas in this country?
32. What is Woody Allen's latest movie about?
33. What is Hanukkah?
34. Why do some states have bicameral systems and others don't?
35. How was your trip?
36. What does philology study?
37. How was the reconstruction of Germany after the end of World War II?
38. How did the children behave during the holidays?
39. How does photosynthesis occur?
40. What characterizes rhetorical figures?
41. What are the characteristics of compound words?
42. How do aquatic plants feed?
43. How do you focus in the midst of this hubbub?
44. What does Marshall McLuhan mean by the concept of "global village"?
45. What is the water cycle like?
46. How would you define a parliamentary democracy?
47. How does this washing machine work?
48. What does locro taste like?
49. What characterizes marsupials?
50. What is the division of powers?

See also:

• Rhetorical questions
• True or false questions
• Explanatory questions
• Multiple choice questions
• Mixed questions
• Closed questions
• Open and closed questions