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Kekel Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

do you know where is it or it is??

I've always thought it was correct to say:
do you know where it is??

But I was googling this sentence and this website gave me:
do you know where is it --> 57.300
do you know where it is --> 36.800

So, I don't know anymore which one is right...
Please, someone help me out!!!!!!!!
  

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what do you want to say?
complete the sentence
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Ignore the Google search - on this sort of phrase it really will not help.

You are right that "Do you know where it is?" is correct.

"Do you know where is it" is incomplete [or incorrect]. Many of the Google results are poorly punctuated: "Do you know? Where is it?" is one of these. Some are non-native English trying to ask "where is it?" and getting it wrong.
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Hi Kekel,

Do you know where it is? OK, perfect.
Do you know where is it? NO
KekelBut I was googling this sentence and this website gave me:
do you know where is it --> 57.300
do you know where it is --> 36.800
Don't use google that way. Google's results given on the first page are not relevant at all. Believe me, "do you know wh
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Gosh,
I was used to do it all the time and compare the results google gives me!!!!!!!! Emotion: surprise

So, if I'm unsure regardin
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MUCH better to ask us! Emotion: big smile
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The correcto one is "Do you know where it is", because this is an indirect question. The interrogative pronoun is in the middle of the sentence
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Yeah, Feebs, I couldn't agree more with you, but I thought a quick serch on Google would be accurate just to confirm some structures. Now, I realise that there are many mistakes on the net. Gosh! How come I never thought about it??????

See ya!
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Unfortunately, this is an area of English which may be slowly undergoing a change. Not only do non-native speakers have difficulty with it, but a surprising number of educated native speakers seem to be using the inverted structure "incorrectly" more and more. It is so prevalent that some books are calling it neither a direct question nor an indirect question, but a semi-indirect question!
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Yeah, as a non native speaker, I prefer to say the "right thing" (as in the grammar books) otherwise I'm afraid I could be misunderstood!

I understand when you say that natives speak "incorrect forms" instead of the standart pattern according togrammar. It happens to my native language too, I think it's related to human beings to brake the grammatical rules and try to inovate about their
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do you know where is it - This is Correct - Question is always should be like this
Answer: I knew, where it is - This is Correct -

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