Open-Ended Question

AKA: Non-Polar Question.
Context:
- It can use an Interrogative Word (to specify the desired information type).
- It can initiate an Open-Ended Conversation.
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Example(s):
- an Open-ended Product-related Question.
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- “Tell me about your relationship with your supervisor.”.
- “How do you see your future?”.
- “Tell me about the children in this photograph.”.
- “What is the purpose of government?.
- “Why did you choose that answer?”.
- “What's the main point you want the client to walk away thinking about after this presentation? What are a few ways you could effectively make that point? What are the pros and cons of each approach?”.
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Counter-Example(s):
- a Closed-ended Question, such as a yes-no question.
See: Customer Interview, Leading Question, Rhetorical Question, Interrogative.

References

(Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-ended_question Retrieved:2022-8-23.
- An open-ended question is a question that cannot be answered with a "yes" or "no" response, or with a static response. Open-ended questions are phrased as a statement which requires a longer response. The response can be compared to information that is already known to the questioner.

(Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question#Open_questions Retrieved:2022-7-11.
- An open question (also called a variable question,^[1] non-polar question, or special question^[2]) admits indefinitely many possible answers. For example:
  Where should we go for lunch?
- In English, these are typically embodied in a closed interrogative clause, which uses an interrogative word such as when, who, or what. These are also called wh-words, and for this reason open questions may also be called wh-questions.

(Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question#wh Retrieved:2014-7-11.
- … The other main type of question (other than yes–no questions) is those called wh-questions (or non-polar questions). These use interrogative words (wh-words) such as when, which, who, how, etc. to specify the information that is desired. (In some languages the formation of such questions may involve wh-movement – see the section below for grammatical description.) The name derives from the fact that most of the English interrogative words (with the exception of how) begin with the letters wh. These are the types of question sometimes referred to in journalism and other investigative contexts as the Five Ws.

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