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Tkacka15 Posted 8 years ago
Vocabulary
What woodpecker...
What woodpecker is this?
What woodpecker this is?
Are both questions above grammatical?
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tkacka15 What woodpecker is this? Only this. tkacka15 What woodpecker this is?
- tkacka15 What woodpecker is this?
- Only this.
- tkacka15 What woodpecker this is?
- The word order in this is one of the common mistakes made by foreigners and makes them stand out as non-native speakers.
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tkacka15What woodpecker is this?
Only this.
tkacka15What woodpecker this is?
The word order in this is one of the common mistakes made by foreigners and makes them stand out as non-native speakers.
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tkacka15Are both questions above grammatical?
No. The answer would be of the form This is a [yellow-winged / red-breasted / black-tufted] woodpecker, that is, with the subject and verb This is. In a direct question such as those you suggested above, the subject and verb must occur in the opposite order from how they occur in a statement, i.e
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