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For other uses, see Question (disambiguation). To ask questions about Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Questions.
“ There are these four ways of answering questions. Which four? There are questions that should be answered categorically [straightforwardly yes, no, this, that]. There are questions that should be answered with an analytical (qualified) answer [defining or redefining the terms]. There are questions that should be answered with a counter-question. There are questions that should be put aside. These are the four ways of answering questions. ”
—Buddha, Sutta Pitaka[1]
A question is a linguistic expression used to make a request for information, or the request made using such an expression. The information requested may be provided in the form of an answer.
Questions have developed a range of uses that go beyond the simple eliciting of information from another party. Rhetorical questions, for example, are used to make a point, and are not expected to be answered. Many languages have special grammatical forms for questions (for example, in the English sentence "Are you happy?", the inversion of the subject you and the verb are shows it to be a question rather than a statement). However questions can also be asked without using these interrogative grammatical structures – for example one may use an imperative, as in "Tell me your name".
For detailed information about the grammar of question formation, see Interrogative, and for English specifically, English grammar: Questions.
Contents
1 Uses
2 Types
2.1 By purpose
2.2 By grammatical form
3 Grammar
4 Responses
5 Learning
6 Philosophical questions
7 Origins of questioning behavior
8 See also
9 References
10 Further reading
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