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Michelle Cha Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Indiect question: What do you think her name is/ is her name?

Please let me know which of the below sentences are grammatical.

1. What do you think her name is?

2. What do you think is her name?

3. What do you think the toughest race is in sports?

4. What do you think is the toughest race in sports?

Actually I've learned 1 and 3 are grammatical but found sentence 4 in a textbook. Please let me know which of them are grammatical.
  

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1. What do you think her name is? grammatical 2.

  • 1.
  • What do you think her name is?
  • grammatical 2.
  • What do you think is her name?
  • Not grammatical 3.
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1. What do you think her name is? grammatical

2. What do you think is her name? Not grammatical

3. What do you think the toughest race is in sports? Not grammatical

4. What do you think is the toughest race in sports? This is correct, grammatical.

Actually I've learned 1 and 3 are grammatical but found sentence 4 in a textbook. Please let me know which of them

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