Could this technically be a question?
I asked a question on this forum the other day if this sentence was fine and was told that I should replace the question mark, which just got me wondering if this technically couldn't be a question? If no, why?
"He told me you were feeling better, but maybe that's not how it really is? Just please be honest with me."
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Technically it's not a question.
- Technically it's not a question.
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He told me you were feeling better, but maybe that's not how it really is? Just please be honest with me.
It is possible. A closed question can be signalled by means of a rise in the intonation, instead of by a different syntactic form.
But it doesn't qualify as an interrogative clause, since it doesn't have subject-auxiliary inversion; compare the interrogative: I
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