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Grammar Glossary - Q
• quantifier • question • question tag • question types • quotation
From UseE
A quantifier, as its name implies, expresses quantity.
Quantifiers can be a single word or a phrase and are used with nouns.
They can be used with both a countable or an uncountable noun
to express amount or quantity. Common quantifiers:
• some • much • many • few • little
• a lot • half • three
From UseE
A question is a sentence, a phrase or even just a gesture that shows that the speaker or writer wants the reader or listener to supply them with some information, to perform a task or in some other way satisfy the request.
From UseE
A question tag can be made by making a statement and putting an auxiliary verb and a pronoun at the end:
She's coming, isn't she?
She wasn't there, was she?
From UseE
There are a number of different types of question used
in English, including the following:
• Academic question • Rhetorical question • Hypothetical question
• Question tag • Tail question
From LBH
Repetition of what someone has written or spoken.
In direct quotation
(direct discourse),
the person's words are duplicated exactly and enclosed in quotation marks:
Polonius told his son, Laertes, " Neither a borrower nor a lender be."
An indirect quotation (indirect discourse) reports what someone said or wrote but not in the exact words and not in quotation marks:
Polonius advised his son, Laertes, not to borrow or lend.
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