Questions tagged [questions]
This tag is for questions related to the formation, or answering of questions.
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Can I answer this question with just "no"? [migrated]
No milk in the fridge?
No!
Is this a common way for native English speakers to answer?
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Which answer is the correct one? [duplicate]
No milk in the fridge?
No!
No milk in the fridge?
No there isn't
No milk in the fridge?
Yes, there's no milk
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Colon and semicolon use in a list of questions in APA style
I'm wondering the correct punctuation in a list of questions within an academic APA setting. For instance, if I had:
We were still able to address our original questions: How did the students respond ...
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Article 'The' when use with the name of an island [duplicate]
According standard English, we do not use 'the' with the name of a single island, for example, 'Tasmania' or 'Bermuda'. We just use 'the' when the name refers to a group of islands or is made up of ...
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Why do artists make grammar mistakes in their songs? [closed]
I would be deeply grateful if you answer my question. I'm currently writing my thesis about standard and non-standard English grammar and the main problem of my work is why artists make grammar "...
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Do I put a question mark after the word do in this quote? [closed]
This is a quote by Franklin D Roosevelt, it goes as follows:
“ it is not sufficient just to want ask yourself. What are you going to do to get what you want”
My question is when writing this quote is ...
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'I know what is freedom / freedom is'. <-- Word order in WH-questions
My understanding is that in a wh- subordinate clause, we must use statement word order (subject then verb) rather than question word order (verb then subject):
Correct: I know what freedom is.
Wrong:...
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Split indirect question
Here's a direct question.
Where does he live?
And here's an indirect one.
Do you know where he lives?
I wonder how you would analyze the following structure. Can we call it "a split indirect ...
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Why don't indirect questions undergo subject-auxiliary inversion, like in languages like Spanish? [duplicate]
Just two days ago, I asked a question about indirect questions in Spanish and English.
Usually, when we pose an indirect question in English, we first ask a direct question like this: "Do you ...
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Noun-verb Order in Indirect Questions compared with Direct Questions
Usually, when we ask an indirect question in English, we first ask a direct question, then we say the real question indirectly. But in Spanish, they say two direct questions. Why is English different?
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What's the term for "blame disguised as a question"? [duplicate]
Is there a term for disguising blame as a question?
For example, when someone is late, someone sarcastically says
Wow you're early, did you wake up late?
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Is “How tiresome are you” ungrammatical?
On a post on twitter a girl had sent messages to her boyfriend and one of the messages was
How tiresome are you.
People were saying that it is grammatically incorrect but I don't understand why ...
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Is "we know how expensive we are" an embedded question? [duplicate]
I cannot for the life of me decide if this is supposed to be interpreted as a complement clause or an embedded question or what.
My thought process so far is that it couldn't be a reported question (...
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Are which+ noun and whose nouns are acceptable in English free relatives? [closed]
I am curious if the following two sentences are acceptable in English.
a. He read which books she read.
b. I am sure that my dad will pay for whose cars I damage.
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Which one of the following..., Single or Multiple possible answers
In a MCQ I was surprised to see that there were multiple correct answers to the following question:
[...] Which one of the following entities can perform this action?
I thought that "which one&...
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