Chinese and english both have interrogative pronouns

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Chinese and English both have interrogative pronouns. For this exercise, we focus on 'what' and '??/??' in English and Chinese respectively. What is interesting is that both forms can have uses that are different from the standard use of an interrogative pronoun.

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1) Find out at least 3 different uses other than the standard interrogative use;
2) Collect examples from each language illustrating these different uses;

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