Talk:Non-inverted Questions
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| - | I don't know if [[Why Come Only One Girl?]] really counts, considering there's not really a verb at all in the question. But if others disagree, I don't really care — just throwing in my opinion. [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 04: | + | I don't know if [[Why Come Only One Girl?]] really counts, considering there's not really a verb at all in the question. But if others disagree, I don't really care — just throwing in my opinion. [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 04:11, 23 June 2007 (UTC) |
| + | : It was removed hours ago. Why come bring it up now? --{{User:Jay/sig}} 04:45, 23 June 2007 (UTC) | ||
| + | ::Oh. Um...because I was stupid and didn't check next difference and/or patrolled recent changes? Sorry, I made an assumption. We can pretend this never happened now. [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 04:54, 23 June 2007 (UTC) | ||
| + | :::Pretend what never happened? ;) You were right, though; without a verb, it wasn't a non-inverted question; the precise reason it was deleted. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 04:55, 23 June 2007 (UTC) | ||
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| + | I don't know how technical we really want to get in these, but this is more accurately described as a fronting of the wh-word without alteration of the first matrix auxilliary verb. | ||
Current revision as of 01:11, 31 July 2009
I don't know if Why Come Only One Girl? really counts, considering there's not really a verb at all in the question. But if others disagree, I don't really care — just throwing in my opinion. So makey outy 04:11, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
- It was removed hours ago. Why come bring it up now? --Jay (Gobble) 04:45, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
- Oh. Um...because I was stupid and didn't check next difference and/or patrolled recent changes? Sorry, I made an assumption. We can pretend this never happened now. So makey outy 04:54, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
I don't know how technical we really want to get in these, but this is more accurately described as a fronting of the wh-word without alteration of the first matrix auxilliary verb.
