This tag is for inquiries about the interrogative grammatical form, element, or construction, such as would be employed in the formation of a question.
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What is the difference between "How about" vs "What about"?
Can anyone tell me the difference between How about and What about in the following sentences?
What should I say: What about her or How about her ?
And,
Should I say What about playing cards or How about playing cards?
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How to ask what time the bank opens
When is the bank open?
When is the bank opened?
When does the bank open?
I want to ask what time the bank opens. I thought the last one (#3) is correct, but I saw in a book that the first one (#1) is correct. Is it possible the second one…
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Do "How was it?" and "What … like?" have different uses?
How...?
What...like?
According to English Grammar Today (on Cambridge Dictionaries Online),
How …? has 3 different meanings:
1)To ask about someone’s general health or 2) about the condition or state of something, or 3) how people experience…
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Interrogative very detailed
First of all when you search how to form a question, in english in every grammar site it is written: subject verb inversion and wh forms and possible do forms.
WH forms are listed as interrogative pronouns;
However no one underlines these types of…
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Is 'where' interpreted once or twice in 'Where do you think he went afterwards?'?
Where do you think he went afterwards?
(The Cuckoo’s Calling, by Robert Galbraith)
CGEL's anaylis: Where (i) [do you think [he went __(i) afterwards?]] (* (i) -> co-indexed)
The sequence of above sentence is quite strange for alien’s eye. CGEL…
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How to use "please" in an interrogative sentence
Can you use "please" in the following sentence?
"Could I please send you a letter?"
I always thought you can't use "please" when you ask someone a permission to do.
There are only two types of questions that you can add please, I…
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Interrogative form of this sentence
Ask for the bold part.
They are running home.
I thought the answer must be "Where are they running to?" but when I checked the answer it was "Where are they running?". If the sentence is transformed as "Where are they running?" then it does not…
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Questioning in this way: interrogative clause + "or" + affirmative clause + "?"
In my mother language, when we want to ask a question and we doubt between two conditions to be true we ask our question in this way: interrogative clause + "or" + affirmative clause + "?"
For example, suppose that Alice is known not to be punctual…
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Can interrogative who be substituted by whom?
Who are the letters for? (James Joyce, Ulysses)
It seems that who is moved forward to make an interrogative sentence, from after for. Then can you use whom instead of who, for the latter would be ‘whom’ when it comes after ‘for’?
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Difference in pronunciation of sentences
Ok so here is the example:
Are you a student? - You just want to ask if the person is a student.
You're a student? - You are surprised, because you didn't think he is a student.
Aren't you a student? - You are surprised, because you thought he is a…
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Can I ask "how is she?" in a situation that her husband is dead?
"How is she?"
"She is lonely after her husband passed away."
Supposing that there is a woman who lost her husband and a friend of hers I come across. In this case, if I intend to ask if she is sad, lonely, etc about her, can I say “How is she?”…
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Can we use 'what does she look' without the preposition 'like'?
4 linking verb to seem; to appear
+noun: That looks an interesting book.You made me look a complete fool! (OALD)
For linking verb, look, can have NP complements (OALD,#4), I thought '[A] what does she look like?’ can be altered into '[B] what…
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Joining two interrogative sentences with coordinating conjunction
How should I join two interrogative sentences with a coordinating conjunction?
Should the purpose of our education be focused only on ornamenting students with great degrees or it should be focused on equipping students not only with skills but…
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Can "How soon" be used with the past tense? If not what would be an alternative for it?
How soon will you get back home? I am sure this question is correct. Can we ask if how soon you took to get back home or How soon did you take to get back home?
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How to understand the "what" in this sentence?
I have this sentence:
By inserting HTML tags into a page of text and other content, you mark which part of the page is what to provide structure to the document.
By inserting HTML tags into a page of text and other content is the adverb of…
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