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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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Which question is suitable?

1. What would be a foolish thing to do?
2. What would be a foolish thing?
3. What would it be foolish thing to do?
Answer: to suggest that looks do not matter at all.
For the answer, which question is suitable?
  

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Anonymous For the answer, which question is suitable? The question and answer are both unnatural as a conversation. I cannot imagine how that would ever come up.

— Mister Micawber

  • Anonymous For the answer, which question is suitable?
  • The question and answer are both unnatural as a conversation.
  • I cannot imagine how that would ever come up.
  • Nevertheless, all three are grammatical if you preface 'foolish' with an indefinite article in #3.
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AnonymousFor the answer, which question is suitable?
The question and answer are both unnatural as a conversation. I cannot imagine how that would ever come up. Nevertheless, all three are grammatical if you preface 'foolish' with an indefinite article in #3.
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Thanks, Mister Micawber.
What is natural as a conversation?
The questions in my OP are from a school test and the complete answer it wants is that it would be foolish to suggest that looks do not matter at all.
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You could also remove the word "thing" from the third one.
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AnonymousWhat is natural as a conversation?
They are all equally appropriate.
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