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Tenacious Learner Posted 15 years ago
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Question about photo description. Unit 5 (I)

Hi Teachers,

Based on this answer, 'They were yellow and old' I can ask both options 'a' and ''b', can't I?

a) What kind of photographs were they?

b) What condition were the photos in?

My question is, can I also ask, 'What did the photographs look like?' If not, could you tell the reason?

Thanks in advance
  

Top answer

I wouldn't use a) because the answer really isn't relevant to the question. "Yellow and old" isn't a kind of photograph, but is a condition. As to your question- I would say yes, you can also ask that.

— Jpeterson1218

  • I wouldn't use a) because the answer really isn't relevant to the question.
  • "Yellow and old" isn't a kind of photograph, but is a condition.
  • As to your question- I would say yes, you can also ask that.
  • "Yellow and old" can be both a condition and a description.
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I wouldn't use a) because the answer really isn't relevant to the question. "Yellow and old" isn't a kind of photograph, but is a condition.

As to your question- I would say yes, you can also ask that. "Yellow and old" can be both a condition and a description.
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Hi jpeterson,

Thank you for your reply.

So, 'what kind of photos were they? is wrong then.

What about, 'How were the photos?'' is it also possible?

TS
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