20 Based on explanation above, the researcher can conclude that interrogative sentence
is a sentence include subject which start by auxiliaries or WH-word and use question mark ?.
E. Type of Interrogative Sentence Question
According to Mark Lester ,‟‟ there are two fundamentally different types of questions:
yes-no
questions and information questions ”.
26
Yes-no
questions ask for “yes” or “no” answers. Information questions, on the other hand, ask for specific information and cannot be answered with a simple yes or no.
Obviously, the answers to the
yes-no
questions only anticipate an answer of yes or no, while the information question requires a specific piece of information.
Here are some examples of each type:
Yes-no
questions Information questions
Is there a staff meeting today? When is the staff meeting?
Do you know his wife‟s name? What is his wife‟s name?
Can I go, too? Where are you going?
Will you be late? When will you get back?
Here is a list of the main single-word interrogative pronouns arranged by the part of speech that the interrogative pronoun plays:
26
Lester, Mark.2009. English Grammar Drills. United States. The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc,
p.215
21
Pronoun Part of speech
Example
Who, whom Noun phrase
Who are you? Whom did you meet?
What, Which Noun phrase
What did you find? Which did you pick?
Whose, which Possessive
Whose book is on the desk
Where Adverb of place
Where are you going?
When Adverb of time
When will you get there?
Why Adverb of reason
Why do you want to go there?
How Adverb of manner
How will you get there?
Question-word consists of three parts,they are as follows: 1.
Question beginning with interrogative adverb why, when, where, how for example: why is Mary late?, When will you graduated?, Where did he go last
week?, how did he go to his office?. 2.
Question beginning with interrogative pronoun who, what, which for example: who visited her yesterday?, What is he?, which news paper do you
read?. 3.
Question beginning with interrogative adjective whose, what, which for example: Whose white bag is this?, what are your favorite hobbies?, Which is
your colorful bag?.
22
F. Procedure of Transforming Declarative Sentences into Interrogative in
