Use this tag for questions which distinguish between uses of wh- forms in questions, with subj-aux inversion, and relative clauses, where there is no inversion.
Questions tagged [questions-v-relatives]
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"Do you know where's Linda?" vs "Do you know where Linda is?"
Which of the following is a correct sentence:
Does anyone know where's Linda?
Does anyone know where Linda is?
Does anyone know why and how to use above usage if #2 is correct.
Also please let me know this kind of specific structures.
Carter
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"How can we" vs. "How we can?"
What is the proper way to ask?
How can we achieve this?
or
How we can archive this?
What's the difference between them?
Sathiya Kumar V M
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"Are you" or "you are"
I don't understand the following question:
And can you tell me where you’re from?
Why is "where you are from" used instead of "where are you from"?
Carlos Rojas
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Had they ever, if they had ever, whether they had ever
I was wondering had they ever seen each other before?
I was wondering if they had ever (ever had) seen each other before?
I was wondering whether they had ever (ever had) seen each other before?
Is there a difference between the variants? Are they…
SovereignSun
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"What else it could be?" vs. "What else could it be?" - which is correct?
What else it could be?
What else could it be?
I saw both of these sentences have been used in English. Are they both correct? If so, what is the sentence structure of them.
Kam
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"Do you know what time does the film begin?" vs "Do you know what time the film begins?"
Do you know what time does the film begin?
Do you know what time the film begins?
Which one is correct?
Fsalad
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Can I simply use indirect questions?
Where was the historic six point programme declared?
Where the historic six point programme was declared?
I know the first one is 100% correct.
Is no 2 correct?
Is any special rule with no 2?
Abu Naim Muhammed Kalil
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Word order in a question
"Why does it not sell?" or "Why it does not sell?"
The first seems correct by gramatics but the second is suggested by my intuition.
porton
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