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Anonymous Posted 4 years ago
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What are the differences between these sentences?
1) At what are you laughing? What are you laughing at?
2) To what do you attribute your success? What do you attribute your success to?
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anonymous 1) At what are you laughing? This is a formal word order, but in practice it feels rather strained, possibly because this is not a sentence that we normally expect to be put in a formal style. anonymous What are you laughing at?
- anonymous 1) At what are you laughing?
- This is a formal word order, but in practice it feels rather strained, possibly because this is not a sentence that we normally expect to be put in a formal style.
- anonymous What are you laughing at?
- This is how we normally say it.
- anonymous 2) To what do you attribute your success?
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anonymous1) At what are you laughing?
This is a formal word order, but in practice it feels rather strained, possibly because this is not a sentence that we normally expect to be put in a formal style.
anonymousWhat are you laughing at?
This is how we normally say it.
anonymous2) To what
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