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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

"It hasn't" vs "hasn't it"

Please help me understand the difference between "how come it hasn't stopped raining?" With "how come hasn't it stopped raining?"
  

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The first sentence makes sense, but the second does not. It hasn't... normally forms a statement.

— Blue Jay

  • The first sentence makes sense, but the second does not.
  • It hasn't...
  • normally forms a statement.
  • Hasn't it...
  • normally forms a question.
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The first sentence makes sense, but the second does not.
It hasn't... normally forms a statement.
Hasn't it... normally forms a question.
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Anonymous Please help me understand the difference between "how come it hasn't stopped raining?" With "how come hasn't it stopped raining?"
Only the first one is correct. You don't use subject-verb inversion after "How come" when you ask a question because it's an idiom derived from an older English expression "How comes it that ...?" where "it comes" is alr
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Does "How come?" mean "What has happened that (conjunction) ...?"?
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AnonymousDoes "How come?" mean "What has happened that (conjunction) ...?"?
More or less, yes. The precise meaning would be dependent on the context, but something like What is the reason that... or Why is it the case that... would generally fit.
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AnonymousDoes "How come?" mean "What has happened that (conjunction) ...?"?
As a rough paraphrase, yes. More directly it means "Why?"

How come you drink orange juice twice a day? = Why do you drink orange juice twice a day?

— The Jones family have decided to move to Texas.
— How come? = Why?

CJ
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Thank you, BJ and CJ, for the replies.
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