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 where then is...? However,  may also be placed at the end of the entire question (, ; also, since either  is a dialectical form of , or  should be read instead of it) or at the beginning of the question proper, after a strongly emphasized word, as in.

(e) Sometimes one interrogative governs two co-ordinate clauses, the first of which should rather be subordinated to the second, so that the interrogative word strictly speaking affects only the second; thus after  i.e. wherefore brought it forth, while I looked, &c.; ; after , , also  (read ); after  ; after  , ; after. But  and  4:21 are separated from the verb to which they belong by the insertion of a conditional clause.

3. The affirmative answer is generally expressed, as in Latin, by repeating the emphatic word in the question (or with the second person changed to the first,, , , ), , f., , , ,. (On in the corrected text of, see § 159 dd.) As a negative answer the simple  is sometimes sufficient, as in , , &c.; cf. ; and in the simple  equivalent to no or no one.

A wish may be expressed not only by the simple imperfect, cohortative (§ 108, especially with ), jussive (§ 109; with  ), imperative , perfect consecutive  or by a simple noun-clause (, note, and ) but also in the following ways:—

1. By exclamations in the form of interrogative clauses: especially sentences with followed by the imperfect as being the mood of that which is still unfulfilled but possible, and hence also of that which is desired, e.g.   i.e. O that I were made judge!,. On the other hand, with the perfect (,, , , &c.) or participle (, , &c.), rather expresses a rhetorical question, i.e. a denial, cf. . Especially frequent is the use of (prop. who gives?) to introduce all kinds of desiderative clauses (see under b).—In  the desiderative clause proper is co-ordinated with an interrogative clause,