Interrogative Determiners

While deciding to learn the English language, students can start their learning journey from noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition..etc. After that, they need to learn about the types of sentences in the English language. Learning about types of sentences will help them to improve their language skill. The sentences of the English language are of four types. There are declarative, imperative, interrogative, exclamative. The interrogative determiners are mainly used to ask questions. This Interrogative determiners will ask questions about the noun and always follows the noun. But determiners and interrogative adverbs have completely different usage in the sentence. Most of the interrogatives will start with what, whose, and which. This article gives you a brief explanation about interrogative determiners, how to use interrogative determiners in the sentence with example.  

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Types of Sentences in the English Language

In the English language, the sentences are mainly classified into four types. They are given below. 

1. Declarative sentence

2. Imperative sentence 

3. Interrogative sentence,

4. Exclamative sentence

The declarative sentence will be in the form of a statement, which will provide information about the subject. This sentence will normally end with a full stop.  

The interrogative sentence will be in the form of questions. These sentences start with wh questions. This sentence will normally end with a question mark or full stop. 

The imperative sentence is in the order form. These sentences command or tell to perform certain actions. This sentence will normally end with a full stop or exclamatory mark. 

The exclamation sentence is used to express the feeling. It may be a surprise, sorrow or any other unexpected moment. This sentence will normally end with an exclamatory mark.

About Interrogative Determiners 

The Interrogative is an important type of sentence.  Interrogative sentences are mainly used to ask questions. The interrogative determiners can also be used to oppose a statement, deliver a command or express the exclamation point. The most commonly used list of Interrogative determiners is what, whose and which. So, many of the interrogative sentences will be followed by question marks. An interrogative sentence can be created by reorganizing the declarative sentence. Both the determiners and Interrogative determiners are not the same. But like determiners, Interrogatives will also come at the beginning of the noun phrase.  

We can use the word ‘What’ to ask the question regarding some specific information. 

The word ‘whose’ is a possessive pronoun. This word can be used to ask ‘to which person the thing belongs to’. ‘Whose’ in the sentence will function as both interrogative and possessive determiners. So, whose is technically known as the interrogative possessive determiner and this is the only interrogative possessive determiner in the English language. Also, the word ‘whose’ should not be followed by an apostrophe (‘). The word who’s will also sound like whose, sometime this will raise confusion among the speakers. 

Usually, ‘which’ represents the object or place. ’The word ‘which’ can be used to ask questions regarding information about one or more people or things. 

Example For Interrogatives Starts With What 

1. What is the cost of the book? 

2. What is the story behind this movie? 

3. What is the concept of this lesson? 

4. What are you doing? 

5. What is today’s lunch? 

6. What’s wrong with you? 

7. What will be the reason behind this video? 

8. Do you have any idea about, what is going to happen? 

9. I don’t know what he told my mom. 

10. We don’t know at what time he is going to arrive? 

11. What time we are going to leave this place? 

12. What will be the example of this problem? 

13. What to do after this? 

14. What is your UG score? 

15. What did you say about me? 

Example For Interrogatives Starts With Whose

1. Whose project is this? 

2. Whose fault makes the ship sink? 

3. Whose sheep are they? 

4. Whose notebooks are stolen in the class?

5. Whose part is left over here? 

6. Whose keys are missed in the kitchen garden? 

7. She is Jhony, whose mother accompanied me shopping. 

8. May I know whose project got accepted? 

9. Can you say, whose team you belong to? 

10.  A girl whose car is yellow is looking for you. 

11. Sita is from CBSE whose mark is higher than Meera

12. Can you explain for whose arrival you are waiting for?

13. He is that child, whose bicycle has been stolen by someone.

14. Whose bed you are using now? 

15. She is the student, whose performance is best in the cultural 

Example For Interrogatives Starts With Which

1. This is the beach, which is near to my home

2. Which one is yours?

3. Can you say, which is your best performance? 

4. You have a car, which should be mine

5. Which city do you belong to? 

6. Which is your favorite spot? 

7. All of which was relevant to each other. 

8. Did I ask them, which will be the best movie? 

9. Which is an important subject for NEET? 

10. Which place is the best among these? 

11. Which of the following is the correct choice? 

12.  Between the race between cat and rat, which will come first? 

13. Can you say which version is preferable? 

14. How to ask him, which is the best choice? 

15. Which one is going to be the best among these? 

This article gave you what is interrogative determiners, a list of interrogative determiners, examples for interrogative determiners in detail. This will help students to create many error-free interrogative questions in their day-to-day life. Also, they may come to know, how and what type of interrogative sentences can be used in the day to day life.