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The Usage of Questions in Spoken English

The Usage of Questions in Spoken English Особливості вживання питальних речень в розмовній англійській мові

Questions typically sentences by which someone asks his hearer to give information.

The subject of my investigation the use of questions in everyday communication the reasons why they are different from those in written English the peculiarities of their usage in spoken conversation.

The aim of the work to analyze the main types of questions used in spoken English according to their purpose of communication and their structure to define the most apparent features of ‘communicative’ questions to state the difference in their usage taking into account frequency and gender preferences.

The main types of questions concerning the purpose of communication asking for information questions questions used as responses exclamations and rhetorical questions

The analysis of the dialogues from the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F.S.Fitzgerald. In total - 268 questions in characters’ dialogues Thе number of the grammatically correct questions - 141 (53%) The number of ‘communicative’ questions - 127 (47%)

The ‘communicative’ questions used most frequently in the dialogues

Asking for information questions

The gender difference in the usage of ‘communicative’ questions

Thank you for attention!