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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Confusion about what questions ask for

If I asked the question, "what did you catch?", my question is what is this statement trying to know? I guess I am confused because if the answer was "fish", we already know what fish are, so how does this work.

Please help
  

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" then you're expecting information about the number and type of fish caught. If someone answered "fish" then people would think they were being rude or trying to be funny.

— Mr Wordy

  • " then you're expecting information about the number and type of fish caught.
  • If someone answered "fish" then people would think they were being rude or trying to be funny.
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If you ask "What did you catch?" then you're expecting information about the number and type of fish caught. If someone answered "fish" then people would think they were being rude or trying to be funny.
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