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Victor_amelkin Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

"I should have done" -> interrogative

Hello,

Could you please say, how to correctly convert the following

narrative sentence into an interrogative form?

"I should have done smth."

Options:

A) "Should I have done smth?" (I vote for this variant.)

B) "Should have I done smth?"

P.S. By the way, is it legal/common to split infinitives as in

"... how to correctly convert..."?

Thanks in advance.

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Victor
  

Top answer

Should I have taken out the trash? That's one infinitive I would instictively split [Y]

— Philip

  • Should I have taken out the trash?
  • That's one infinitive I would instictively split [Y]
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Should I have taken out the trash?

That's one infinitive I would instictively split [Y]
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victor_amelkinCould you please say, how to correctly convert the following
narrative sentence into an interrogative form?
"I should have done smth."
Options:
A) "Should I have done smth?" (I vote for this variant.)
B) "Should have I done smth?"

A) Is correct. When a positive sentence with a modal auxiliary such as "should", "could", "o
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Thanks, Philip, BillJ.

BillJ> In case you're interested, the term 'split infinitive'
BillJ> is misleading, since English does not have an infinitive
BillJ> form of the verb in the way that French does. "To convert"
BillJ> is not a verb; it's two words, the subordinator "to" and
BillJ> the verb "convert". There is no rule of grammar requiring
BillJ> t
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Should i have left her?
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