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Taka Posted 15 years ago
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Are these all your friend?

Which is the meaning of the sentence above?

1: Is everyone here your friend?
2: Are these people all of the friends you have?
3: Ambiguous
  

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I think it depends where you put the stress/change in intonation when you say the sentence. If you say: Are these all your friends ? " And if you say: Are these all your friends?

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  • I think it depends where you put the stress/change in intonation when you say the sentence.
  • If you say: Are these all your friends ?
  • " And if you say: Are these all your friends?
  • ".
  • So, written, I guess it is ambiguous.
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I think it depends where you put the stress/change in intonation when you say the sentence. If you say:
Are these all your friends?
then it means "is everyone here your friend?"
And if you say:
Are these all your friends?
then it means "are these people all of the friends you have?".
So, written, I guess it is ambiguous. You could write "are all these peopl
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Interesting.

Thank you!

(Of course, I meant to say 'friends)
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