Glossary term A

Alternative Question

An alternative question is a question that presents two or more possible answers and presupposes that only one is true.

(English)

Would you like chocolate, vanilla, or strawberry ice cream?

  1. Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech, and Svartvik 1985, 823–824
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