[1525.] An alternative question is answered by repeating one member or some part of it, with such changes as the context may require.

[Pronoun Questions.]

[1526.] Pronoun questions or exclamations are introduced by interrogative pronouns, or words of pronoun origin.

Such words are: (a.) quis, quī, quoius, uter, quālis, quantus, quotus: as, quid rīdēs? H. S. 2, 5, 3, why dost thou laugh? ([1144]). uter est īnsānior hōrum? H. S. 2, 3, 102, which of these is the greater crank? hōra quota est? H. S. 2, 6, 44, what’s o’clock? (b.) Or unde, ubī̆, quō, quōr or cūr, quī ablative, how, quīn, why not, quam, how, quandō, quotiēns: as, unde venīs et quō tendis? H. S. 1, 9, 62, whence dost thou come, and whither art thou bound? deus fallī quī potuit? DN. 3, 76, how could a god have been taken in? ([1495]). quam bellum erat cōnfitērī nescīre, DN. 1, 84, how pretty it would have been to own up that you did not know ([1495]).

[1527.] Sometimes quīn loses its interrogative force, and introduces an impatient imperative, particularly in Plautus and Terence, or an indicative of sudden declaration of something obvious or startling: as,

([a.]) quīn mē aspice, Pl. Most. 172, why look me over, won’t you? i.e. mē aspice, quīn aspicis? So twice in Cicero’s orations. (b.) quīn discupiō dīcere, Pl. Tri. 932, why I am bursting with desire to tell.

[1528.] In Plautus, Terence, Horace, and Livy, ut, how, also is used in questions: as, ut valēs? Pl. R. 1304, how do you do? ut sēsē in Samniō rēs habent? L. 10, 18, 11, how is every thing in Samnium? Very commonly, and in Cicero only so, in exclamations also: as, ut fortūnātī sunt fabrī ferrāriī, quī apud carbōnēs adsident; semper calent, Pl. R. 531, what lucky dogs the blacksmiths be, that sit by redhot coals; they’re always warm.

[1529.] In poetry, quis, uter, and quantus are found a few times with -ne attached; as, uterne ad cāsūs dubiōs fīdet sibi certius? H. S. 2, 2, 107, which of the two in doubtful straits will better in himself confide?

[1530.] Two or more questions or exclamations are sometimes united with one and the same verb: as,