In this paper, I would like to reconsider multiple wh-questions in English and claim that their grammaticality can be predicted naturally by our new balanced based explanation. From the descriptive viewpoint, in multiple wh-questions, one wh phrase must be placed at the top position, while the other must be occupied at the end position. If and only if the structure keeps the above situation, the inclination of the structure can hold well-balanced and be accepted as the grammatical multiple wh-questions. In a sense, multiple wh-questions can be one of the most crucial phenomena showing the effect of the balance notion in the theory of grammar.
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