... categorize and define questions. In “Practical English Usage”, questions are classified into 4 main types (Swan, 2003): Nguyen 1 An Overview into the Semantic of Questions in English and Vietnamese Student: ... between the form and the meaning of a sentence (Thiêm, 2004). Comparing and contrasting questions in terms of their semantics enable us to point out the question framework, the devices and operators ... forming questions (Thiêm, 2004).1. Types of questions in Vietnamese and English a) Types of questions in Vietnamese Nguyen 8 In many other studies about linguistics, questions are also put into...