What's question
Hi,
I watched on youtube a scene from Suits- a TV series, and Harvey Specter said the sentence below.
“And if he lied about all of that, what’s to make us believe that he wasn’t lying about everything else?”
I can’t understand what he means by what’s. Is the quoted sentence grammatically correct? Thank you.
Top answer
"what's" = "what is" "what's to" + VERB is an informal idiom that is a shortening of "what is there to" + VERB. Note that this forms a question. There's something to make us believe that?
- "what's" = "what is" "what's to" + VERB is an informal idiom that is a shortening of "what is there to" + VERB.
- Note that this forms a question.
- There's something to make us believe that?
- Something exists to ...?
- Is there something to make us believe that?
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"what's" = "what is"
"what's to" + VERB is an informal idiom that is a shortening of "what is there to" + VERB. Note that this forms a question.
There's something to make us believe that? Something exists to ...?
Is there something to make us believe that? Does something exist to ...?
What is there to make us believe that? What exists to ...?
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