A MULTIFACETED APPROACH TO QUESTIONS IN ENGLISH
A MULTIFACETED APPROACH TO QUESTIONS IN ENGLISH

Summary/Abstract: Starting from the fact that sentences are part and parcel of human communication, irrespective of thelanguage under discussion, and that their form and meaning may vary to a great extent depending on thespeaker‟s intentions of communication, the present paper aims at approaching the multifaceted nature ofinterrogative sentences (also questions) in English by taking into discussion possible definitions andclassifications of such sentences, their morphologic, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and stylistic featuresand the ways in which (some of) these features favour a series of (common) mistakes on the part of nonnative speakers of English, in general, and of Romanian speakers, in particular. The ultimate aim of suchan approach is, on the one hand, to raise the learners‟ awareness with respect to the complex nature ofquestions in English, and to suggest a linguistically integrative approach to teaching questions in Englishto upper-intermediate and advanced learners, on the other.

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