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Gu-Hoon Kwon Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Which is right?

Which is right, A or B?
A) It was at eleven when he came back home.
B) It was eleven when he came back home.

If both are okay, which is appropriate for the book?
  

Top answer

B) is correct. A) if you change 'when' to 'that'. I don't know what book you are referring to.

— Philip

  • B) is correct.
  • A) if you change 'when' to 'that'.
  • I don't know what book you are referring to.
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B) is correct. A) if you change 'when' to 'that'.
I don't know what book you are referring to.
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Gu-Hoon KwonWhich is right, A or B?
A is. For B to be correct, it would have to be It was at eleven that he came back home (He came back home at eleven).
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Aspara GusA is. For B to be correct, it would have to be It was at eleven that he came back home (He came back home at eleven).
May I ask why what wouldn't work here? I know it's incorrect but I don't know why.
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Perfect StrangerMay I ask why what wouldn't work here?
Because the sentence uses an "it-cleft" construction, in which what doesn’t work. You’d need a "wh-cleft": Eleven is what time he came home at, but a native would be more likely to say Eleven is when he came home.
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Aspara GusA is. For B to be correct, it would have to be It was at eleven that he came back home (He came back home at eleven).
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