Imagine while you are talking to an acquaintance, you make a hand gesture that the acquaintance does not understand. The acquaintance asks you what you are intending to communicate by your hand gesture. In this kind of a situation your friend is .

Using an interpretive question to try to learn your purpose

Explanation:

Interpretive question is being asked when we want to find out what lies behind something that someone said or did. They are mostly used when we want to keep the discussion going.

In the given situation, since the acquaintance does not understand, he, by asking you what are you intending to communicate, wants to find out what lies in the back of your action with a goal to learn your purpose, in other words he wants to understand what were you trying to express with that specific hand gesture.

political parties perform an important task in government. they bring people together to achieve control of the government, develop policies favorable to their interests or the groups that support them, and organize and persuade voters to elect their candidates to office.

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the earthquake in haiti was a magnitude of 7.0 according to the u.s geological survey yet the smaller earthquake in haiti killed more than 200,000 and left more than 1.2 million people homeless. the chile earthquake was a magnitude of 8.8 and 500 times more stronger but chile's earthquake only injured 712 people.