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John liao Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

just happen?

Do you reply on basic questions that you've prepared in your mind or does it just happen?

I think that happen is a verb, is "just happen" an attributive to modify "it"?
  

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john liao is "just happen" an attributive to modify "it"? No. "it" is a subject and "happen" is the verb that goes with it.

— CalifJim

  • john liao is "just happen" an attributive to modify "it"?
  • No.
  • "it" is a subject and "happen" is the verb that goes with it.
  • The subject-verb relation is never called "modification".
  • CJ
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john liaois "just happen" an attributive to modify "it"?
No. "it" is a subject and "happen" is the verb that goes with it. The subject-verb relation is never called "modification".

CJ
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"it" is simply the subject of the verb "happen".

Affirmative: "it happens" / "it does happen"
Question: "does it happen?"

"just" means "simply" with a nuance like "spontaneously".

The sentence as a whole does not make much sense to me. I wonder whether "reply" is supposed to say "rely".
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Do you rely on basic questions that you've prepared in your mind or does it just happen?
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john liaoDo you rely on basic questions that you've prepared in your mind or does it just happen?
All correct.

CJ
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