Look! It's that guy I was with? (spoken "questions")

Looks fine apart from the question mark. This is a statement not a question.

if it was intended as a question, understood as a question, and Mary gets the guy's number, what's to be wrong?

sam

No, it was meant as a question.

Similar:

Oh my ***! Look! There's Jan and Dean with their suitcases. They're coming with us?

Isn't it a question in declarative form? It seems as if the speaker has omitted (on purpose) the question tag and is probably using "with" in rising intonation. It's OK by me.

It's called a rising declarative question.

"Rising declaratives, like syntactic interrogatives, fail to commit the Speaker to their propositional content."

I can't hear it as a question.
The question is:
"Look! Is that the guy I was with?"

The situation does not lend itself to a declarative used as a question.

I hear something more like this.

Mary is introduced to John.

Mary: How do you do? Nice to meet you.
John: Hi! Nice to meet you, too. Don't you recognize me?
Mary: (Look

CalifJimI can't hear it as a question.
The question is:
"Look! Is that the guy I was with?"

The situation does not lend itself to a declarative used as a question.

I hear something more like this.

Mary is introduced to John.

Mary: How do you do? Nice to meet you.
John: Hi! Nice to meet you, too. Don't you recognize me?

I still can't hear it as a question either.

I would say that 'Look! That's the guy I was with?' (boy is he ugly, I can't believe I snogged him last night in the pub!) would work as a declarative question, but not 'It's that guy I was with?'. 'Is that/it the guy I was with?' works as a straightforward question.

Nona The BritI still can't hear it as a question either.

I would say that 'Look! That's the guy I was with?' (boy is he ugly, I can't believe I snogged him last night in the pub!) would work as a declarative question, but not 'It's that guy I was with?'. 'Is that/it the guy I was with?' works as a straightforward question.

Would you use "It

I suppose so.

Perhaps it it the combination with 'Look!' that is blurring the issue here. If I were to say 'Look!' It's raining?' I'd sound a bit odd. Can't I tell what that load of water drops falling from the sky are, when I looking right at them?

If you are saying 'Look!' then you can clearly see the guy in question and it just sounds wrong to my ears to follow it up with 'I