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Victorycountry Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

What are you say?

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00I sometimes hear that someone say 02br
00"what are you think?" instead of "what do you think?" 02br
00I mean if I heard such phrase correctly. 02br
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00I even heard phrases like "what are say?" on TV instead of "what do you say?" 02br
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00Is this another informal way of saying by natives, even though they don't seem to be correct grammatically? or can it be said such a way in Spoken English? 02br
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00Could someone help me understand it. 02br
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00Thanks in advance. 0-
  

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0 Are you sure you heard them correctly? Can't they be:- 02br
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00a) "What are you thinkING?" ( What are you think?) 02br
00b) "What HEARSAY?" ( What are say?) 0-
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0 Hi, Temico. 02br
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00Yes, it was not "What are you thinkING" so I was wondered if you could say such a way in Spoken English; "What are you think?" "What are you say?". 02br
00I don't know whether it is because the speaker( on Drama on TV ) said in unstressed tone, but it was very clear to me that it wasn't "what are you thinkING". 0-
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Hi, I have the same question but with the phrase "Are they really exist?"

Just put it in Google and you will see many usages of "Are they really exist?" where it must be "Do they really exist?"

I've tried to find out what that means but with no results.

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These are not correct, and they are not even incorrect but commonly said. I think you have just heard them incorrectly. Someone might say something that sounds like "Whadayathink?" but they are still intending to say "what do you think," not "what are you think."

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