Key words: communicative semantics, affirmative sentences, interrogative sentences, interrogative constructions, Ukrainian, English.
The article is devoted to the problem of reproduction of communicative semantics while translating interrogative sentences (questions) from Ukrainian into English within official academic correspondence. The notions “interrogative semantics”, “interrogative construction”, “interrogative sentence” are defined in the research; affirmative sentences and questions are classified according to the criteria “communicative interrogative / non-interrogative semantics”.