Hello. I noticed that i can’t understand how to ask correctly in English.(I don’t mean easy questions)
Sometimes there are two verbs in a sentence and I can’t digest which verb the question belongs to.
For example;
1-) When do you think to go on a holiday?
What does it mean? Does it ask when to think about holiday or when to go?
And What is the rule here? According to what?
Because I can say: “I usually think about holiday in the winter months and search some hotels for a better holiday and decided when to go and where to go”
Or I can also say: “I think that I will go on a holiday next month.”
I mean, Does it ask the time of thinking or Does it ask the time of holiday? It’s a boring problem for me.
Let’s see another one.
2-) When did you decide that we will meet?
What must my answer be?
I decided yesterday that we will meet
or
I decided that we will meet tomorrow.
Which one and why?
3-) (We’ve talked about it here but I can’t still understand why.)
Where do you want to buy a book to read?
There are two verbs in one sentence and how do you all decide Which verb “where” must belong to? Are there any rules about how to understand easily? Thank you so much..
1. By US standards, this is an unusual sentence with a 19th century flavor, that would rarely be heard today. " The meaning is essentially: when are you going on a holiday?
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1. By US standards, this is an unusual sentence with a 19th century flavor, that would rarely be heard today. This would usually be worded as: "When do you think you will go on a holiday?" The meaning is essentially: when are you going on a holiday? The verb "think" is used colloquially here and is not the source of action in the sentence.
2. Here the meaning is: when will
2. The sentence, "When did you decide that we will meet?, means essentially, "When will we meet?" You would rarely, if ever, ask someone: when was the moment that he decided to meet with you. This is theoretically possible but is not done in everyday (US) English. What would be the point of knowing the moment that someone decided to meet with you? This is just not done in US English.