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Whatchadoin Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Abbreviations

Are the following informal and abbreviated questions OK?

Anybody want to play me?
Nobody want to teach me how to play this?

Thanks.
  

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In what way do you consider them informal and abbreviated? What are the full versions that you conceive?

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In what way do you consider them informal and abbreviated? What are the full versions that you conceive?
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Anybody want to play me? - Does anybody want to play me?
Nobody want to teach me how to play this? - Does nobody want to teach me how to play this?

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That is not what they mean. The first pair do not incorporate the idea of 'teach', so you cannot reduce them to those.
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