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Book modern 208 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Noun clauses

Do you know what culture is? vs Do you know what is culture? Is the second sentence grammatically incorrect and if yes, I would like to know why?

  

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book modern 208 Do you know what is culture? Using this word order to ask questions is incorrect. It is also one of the things that makes native speakers of other languages obvious to native English speakers.

  • book modern 208 Do you know what is culture?
  • Using this word order to ask questions is incorrect.
  • It is also one of the things that makes native speakers of other languages obvious to native English speakers.
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book modern 208Do you know what is culture?

Using this word order to ask questions is incorrect. It is also one of the things that makes native speakers of other languages obvious to native English speakers.

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book modern 208

Do you know what culture is? vs Do you know what is culture? Is the second sentence grammatically incorrect and if yes, I would like to know why?

Yes, the second sentence is incorrect. It can only be:

Do you know what culture is?

The underlined element is a subordinate interrogative clause (embe

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