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BulbulTada Posted 5 years ago
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I read that article about declarative, interrogative and negative sentences. There is a type given in it called 'declarative interrogative' which is said mostly used during informal speech. The following sentence rather sounds a declarative interrogative, because the use of 'until now' at the end of an interrogative sentence may not be possible, I feel, is it?

Have I not understood this until now?

If the above was meant to be an interrogative, it would not use 'until no' but something like yet or already.

Have I already understood this?

Have I understood this yet?

  

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BulbulTada There is a type given in it called 'declarative interrogative' They are named "Declarative questions", not declarative interrogative. Those terms refer to word order: subject-verb-object versus verb-subject-object. You cannot have both declarative and interrogative word orders in the same main clause.

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BulbulTadaThere is a type given in it called 'declarative interrogative'

They are named "Declarative questions", not declarative interrogative. Those terms refer to word order: subject-verb-object versus verb-subject-object. You cannot have both declarative and interrogative word orders in the same main clause. It is simply an impossibility.

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