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Meaning of wh-movement | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1
/ˌdʌbəlju ˈeɪtʃ ˌmuvmənt/

Definitions

a syntactic phenomenon found in many languages around the world, in which interrogative words (sometimes called wh-words) or phrases show a special word order. Unlike ordinary phrases, such wh-words appear at the beginning of an interrogative clause.

countable, uncountable

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C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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