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Danil Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

"Where are you" or "Where you are"

Greetings to all, dear community of forum.
Can you tell me please what is the difference between

"Where are you" or "Where you are"

google doesn't give me the answer.
Can you tell me the rule for better understanding?
Kind regards
Danil
  

Top answer

Hi Danil; It's a simple answer. This is a direct question: Where are you? This is an indirect question: I don't know where you are.

— AlpheccaStars

  • Hi Danil; It's a simple answer.
  • This is a direct question: Where are you?
  • This is an indirect question: I don't know where you are.
  • In the question format, the subject and verb are inverted and we put a question mark at the end.
  • In the indirect question format, the subject and verb are not inverted, and there is no question mark at the end.
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Hi Danil;

It's a simple answer.

This is a direct question: Where are you?

This is an indirect question: I don't know where you are.

In the question format, the subject and verb are inverted and we put a question mark at the end.
In the indirect question format, the subject and verb are not inverted, and there is no question mark at the end.
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Hi, AlpheccaStars:

I mean if I do interrogative form: "Where are you?" and put "are" in the middle between "where" and "you"

Or I should say "Where you are?" and put "you" in the middle between "where" and "are" .

Which kind of examples will grammatic
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Please sorry. I did not understand Your explanation to the end.
Yours faithfully!
Danil
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Danil"Where are you" or "Where you are"
"Where are you?" is a direct question.

"where you are" may be an indirect question as in "I wonder where you are" or a statement as in "Trying to stay with the company by relocating or even trying to stay where you are, is pointless."
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Where are you? is a question that stands by itself.

... where you are is used as a part of a larger sentence.

I have no idea where you are. / Mary doesn't know where you are. / Can you tell me where you are?
No one is able to guess where you are. / We are all wondering where you are. / Where you are is a mystery.

See also

CJ
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Anonymous"Trying to stay with the company by relocating or even trying to stay where you are, is pointless."
Delete the comma. You can't have a single comma between subject and verb. Some might put a comma after 'relocating' and after 'are'; that's OK.
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Anonymousindirect question as in "I wonder where you are"
Correct.
Anonymousindirect question ... trying to stay where you are ...
Not correct. 'where you are' is a fused relative construction here. where = at the place that.
... stay at the place that you are (already at) ...

That's not the mean
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CalifJimAnonymousindirect question ... trying to stay where you are ...Not correct. 'where you are' is a fused relative construction here. where = at the place that.... stay at the place that you are (already at) ...
I have to admit that I'm a bit lost here. I didn't say that "where you are" was an indirect question in "trying to stay where you are"; I said it
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AnonymousI didn't say that "where you are" was an indirect question in "trying to stay where you are"; I said it's a statement ("the place where you are at").
Right. I misread it. Nevertheless, in 'stay where you are', 'where you are' is a fused relative construction and should not be called a statement.

CJ
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CalifJimNevertheless, in 'stay where you are', 'where you are' is a fused relative construction and should not be called a statement.
I see.
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