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PreciousJones Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Plans

You have plans for today? Is this sentence correct? Or should it be:
You have plans today? Or
Any plans today?

I can't wait to go swimming? Is this sentence correct?

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Top answer

If you use a rising inflection, the first three can be questions. The last one doesn't work as a question. Unless you don't know your own opinion and need someone else to tell you.

— BarbaraPA

  • If you use a rising inflection, the first three can be questions.
  • The last one doesn't work as a question.
  • Unless you don't know your own opinion and need someone else to tell you.
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If you use a rising inflection, the first three can be questions.

The last one doesn't work as a question. Unless you don't know your own opinion and need someone else to tell you.
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What's a rising inflection?
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The pitch of your voice going up towards the end of the sentence.
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I have a question.

Do you have any plans today?

If that's correct and acceptable, would that be taken to mean "Do you have any plans FOR today", out of context? If so, is the version with the "for" included more common and idiomatic? Thank you.
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I think... maybe... that the version with the "for" sounds a tiny bit more natural, but I really don't see any big difference at all.
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Yes they mean the same Kooyeen. I think the they are both used commonly but in different ways. Do you have any plans today is a lot less formal, very casual conversation you would have say around a breakfast table with family. Do you have any plans for today is more formal.
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