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Kenny1999 Posted 4 years ago
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Which question is correct?

1. Why doesn’t her teacher want her to fight ?

2. Why her teacher doesn’t want her to fight ?


I think 1 is correct but 2 sounds very natural. I am not sure. Any specialist?

  

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1 is perfect; 2 is wrong.

(In writing, don't leave a space before a question mark.)

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kenny1999

1. Why doesn’t her teacher want her to fight? OK.

2. Why her teacher doesn’t want her to fight ? NO.

The word order in 2) can only be used in an indirect question, which is a question embedd

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kenny19992. Why her teacher doesn’t want her to fight ?

This word order in questions is one of the things that makes native speakers of other languages obvious.

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