Re: Conjunctive Inversion


Ron Hardin schrieb:
Padraic Brown wrote:
*Does your family feel overwhelmed and you don't know where to turn?

What's wrong with this one?

The second half isn't a question.

For one thing, it's assertive and questions are nonassertive.

An assertion wouldn't be followed by a question mark. Quirk and Greenbaum
("University Grammar of English") classify sentences like "You've got the
explosive?" or "You realize what the risks are?" as "declarative questions".
Similarly, "You don't know where to turn?" could be considered a question,
too, couldn't it?

Regards,
Ekkehard


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