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Valerie Leri Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

What is a man/woman? What are you?

Hi!

1. The answer to the question 'What are you?' can be your profession. What else can be the answer?

2. I think it's not grammatically correct to ask 'What is a man? What is a woman?' when you have a picture in front of you with two people in it and want to elicit the people's professions from a student. You need to have a definate article instead of indefinate one because you are asking about particular man/woman in this picture. So, it should be ''What is the man? What is the woman?'. Am I correct?

3. How would a native speaker elicit ocupations of people in the picture? What other questions might sound more natural in your opinion in this situation?


Regards,

Valeria

  

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1. ' can be your profession. What else can be the answer?

— Clive

  • 1.
  • ' can be your profession.
  • What else can be the answer?
  • It depends on the context.
  • eg In a conversation about wright: A: What are you?
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1. The answer to the question 'What are you?' can be your profession. What else can be the answer?

It depends on the context.

eg In a conversation about wright:

A: What are you?

B: 150 pounds

eg In a conversation about monsters

A: What are you?

B: I'm a vampire.

2. it should be ''What is the man? W

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