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Jan 15, 2011. #11. Yes, these two questions can have answers (all questions do, rhetorical or not), but what decides if the other person should give an answer or not (the point about anticipating or requring one) is how the asker asks the question. In a rhetorical question, there is the assumption that both the asker and the addressee know the ...
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Member. Russian. Feb 8, 2017. #9. Enquiring Mind said: Hi akuptsov.hse, if we accept the Longman definition of a rhetorical question: "a question that you ask as a way of making a statement, without expecting an answer", then I don't agree at all that tag questions are rhetorical. In fact, by adding a tag, the speaker invites a response.
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2005年8月3日 · Rhetorical (adj.) 4. Designating a question asked only to produce an effect or make a statement, rather than to elicit an answer or information. Chiefly in rhetorical question. 1958 J. Osborne & A. Creighton Epitaph of G Dillon (1960) 203 Barney. I take it you are interested in money? George. Is that a rhetorical question?
Does a rhetorical question require a question mark?
2007年4月23日 · The rhetorical question does need a question mark. It helps the reader to recognise that it is, in fact, a question. Questions, rhetorical or otherwise, need to sound like questions, or look like questions. It shouldn't provoke an unnecessary response, because the rhetorician (that's a new one for me, but it's in the dictionary) will normally ...
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2011年10月1日 · Interesting question QP SaaHib! The current / official term is supposed to be خَطِیبانَہ سوال = rhetorical question. میں اس اصطلاح سے كلی طور پر مطمئن نہیں ہوں! شاید اس سے بہتر كچھ نہ ہو اور قیاسی سوال = conjectural question - not the same as a rhetorical question.
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2024年4月10日 · However, this is not a rhetorical question, but rather a real question asked by a very young kid to their mom. And their mom would answer with "yes" or "no," which proves that it's not a rhetorical question. The scientific-fact based answer would be "no" because any rabbits cannot live on the moon.
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2014年3月20日 · regardless of whether 'It is a hot day?' is a real question or a rhetorical question. The second school of thought is that the punctuation should be according to the function of the sentence, and possibly intonation, in which case you would write, 'Is it a hot day!' if you have a rhetorical question.
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May 13, 2009. #7. (I favor the question mark.) However, here is an authority that says that rhetorical questions require question marks, with one exception: When a question constitutes a polite request, it is usually not followed by a question mark. This becomes more true as the request becomes longer and more complex.
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2021年11月1日 · I would say “Ain’t that the truth” doesn’t take a question mark because it’s one step removed from a typical rhetorical question. It’s not even recognizable as a question unless you think about it, whereas the others are at least recognizable as being in the form of a question.
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2010年1月10日 · I want to ask the rhetorical question (in an essay): 'Is it that the French are stricter about their language than other francophone countries?' My attempt: Est-ce que c'est que les francais sont plus rigides sur leur langue que les autres pays francophones? thanks for …