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Fandorin Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
What's the difference?
"What are we living for?"
"What we're living for?"
In what is the difference? I guess they are the same. But in the second question author expect to hear short answer. Am I right? Please correct if I don't.
"What we're living for?"
In what is the difference? I guess they are the same. But in the second question author expect to hear short answer. Am I right? Please correct if I don't.
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Hey Fandorin, I'd say the difference is that #1 is a question, while #2 looks like a part of an unfinished sentence: What are we living for? -- We are living for our work. What we're living for is our work.
- Hey Fandorin, I'd say the difference is that #1 is a question, while #2 looks like a part of an unfinished sentence: What are we living for?
- -- We are living for our work.
- What we're living for is our work.
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Hey Fandorin,
I'd say the difference is that #1 is a question, while #2 looks like a part of an unfinished sentence:
What are we living for? -- We are living for our work.
What we're living for is our work.
I'd say the difference is that #1 is a question, while #2 looks like a part of an unfinished sentence:
What are we living for? -- We are living for our work.
What we're living for is our work.
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Hi, Ruslana. Thanks a lot. I think the same way. simply it's a part from a famous song.
Indeed there are questions relating to subject or its adjective. And part#2 seems like that. I always have doubt. What do you think about?
What we're living for? We're living for the children.
Indeed there are questions relating to subject or its adjective. And part#2 seems like that. I always have doubt. What do you think about?
What we're living for? We're living for the children.
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Well, I'm not sure, but perhaps the construction "What we're living for" may work as a question only in colloquial speech. Particularly, if it's a part of a song. Once I was told that grammar was the last thing about which they might be concerned in a song. In a song rhymes and rhythm are the main, so... I would hardly rely on a song as a source of decent English.
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thanks.
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