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Maj Posted 22 years ago
Grammar
Nonsense
Will you stop all this nonsense. Is that a question or an order?
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It is a badly punctuated question. It should have a question mark. ' would be a command (order).
- It is a badly punctuated question.
- It should have a question mark.
- ' would be a command (order).
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It is a badly punctuated question. It should have a question mark.
'Stop all this nonsense.' would be a command (order).
'Stop all this nonsense.' would be a command (order).
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when I teach this kind of thing to native speakers we acknowledge the idea of pragmatics, the underlying meaning of an utterance. In this case your utterance has the structure of a question but is pragmatically (really) a command. English speakers will often use a question structure for commands, we think it is more polite.
e.g. "Will you pass the sugar, please? the other person is
e.g. "Will you pass the sugar, please? the other person is
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