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Cup cake Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Interrogative adjective

Hi,
I have a question about the word 'that'.

Can the word 'that' be used as an interrogative adjective?

I know it's demonstrative, but I'm wondering if it can also be classed as interrogative.

Thanks.
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No. What question could it ask?

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No. What question could it ask?
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Is that car yours?

Just wondering. Emotion: thinking
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Cup cakeIs that car yours?
Is not the 'that' that is interrogative.
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Oh, OK...got it!
Thank you Fivejedjon Emotion: smile
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One more question about this topic if I may:

I'm looking in a text book I bought years ago, and it lists the following examples of interrogative adjective:

How can I help?
Where is it?
When do we begin?
Why is she leaving?

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought there were only 3 interrogative adjectives:

- which
- what &
- whose.
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How, when, where and why are not adjectives.
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Well, now I'm convinced that even certain text books get it wrong.

I won't give the title but it was published by Oxford University Press. Trusted, so I thought.

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Are you sure the book specifically said that those words were interrogative adjectives? If so, I think you ought to give us the title., so that people know that they must be wary of it.
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Yes, I'm 100% sure it says this. It's only short. So short, I'll type word for word what it says:

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Interrogative adjective
An adjective (or determiner) that asks a question. These are the so called wh- words + how:

How can I help?
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