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Tigerr Posted 22 years ago
Grammar
Please..the incorrect version of this sentence is......and i changed it to...
incorrected vercion is=What did you say was your name?
corrected version is=What did you say your name was?
i corrected the sentence but dont know grammaticaly why my sentence is better. i know the uncorrected sentence is wrong cuz it just sounds bad but grammatically, can u explain the corrected verion for me so i can know the grammar part of it better? please?
corrected version is=What did you say your name was?
i corrected the sentence but dont know grammaticaly why my sentence is better. i know the uncorrected sentence is wrong cuz it just sounds bad but grammatically, can u explain the corrected verion for me so i can know the grammar part of it better? please?
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Generally, in English a noun precedes its verb: "I eat", "they went", "she drives", etc. That's why the noun and verb in question ("name" and "was") sound better in that order. ").
- Generally, in English a noun precedes its verb: "I eat", "they went", "she drives", etc.
- That's why the noun and verb in question ("name" and "was") sound better in that order.
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Generally, in English a noun precedes its verb: "I eat", "they went", "she drives", etc. That's why the noun and verb in question ("name" and "was") sound better in that order. Now, you might point out that English questions often reverse the noun-verb order ("Is that you?" "Are we there yet?"). But this is true of independent clauses in a question (which is why we say "What did you say...?"
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