Normal 0 false false false RU X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Hello, Raja, It goes without saying that there is no blame in being a non-native speaker and a layperson in linguistic science, so

Have you considered what happens if you insist on subject-verb inversion in all questions AND insist that the question word must always be first? The two are contradictory. Placing the question word first takes precedence. ____ said that? Who

CalifJim , Thank you for your very helpful answer! It provides a nice and very useful recipe for forming a question which rests on a gappy statement! And it definitely helped me a lot in further clarifying my question and to reframe it in your

Hello Gleb, Thank you, again, for your answer! Let me say from the outset, that I am neither a native speaker, nor an expert in linguistics, but nonetheless interested, so please forgive me that I am not as well-versed as far as technical terms

Raja, let me make a number of essential clarifications: 1. ' Hence , that the 'do'-construction in "Who went to the park?" is not possible or at least less preferable (which of the two is it in your opinion?) in "Who

Thanks, Avangi and Gleb! 'Who' and 'what', as interrogative pronouns, can serve as subjects, I agree. That's what I meant when I said that they take the subjective case (other than 'when', 'where', etc., those

The intonation seems OK to me. It seems to me he stresses the word "in" simply to highlight the difference ( from vs in ). Is that what you were wondering about, Kooyeen? No, I was wondering about "as simple as the boss said",

I also interpreted the word "line" to be a reference to the quality of a telephone connection (i.e. a call from Warsaw to a place outside Warsaw vs a call from one place in Warsaw to another place in Warsaw). I also hear "It was as

Yeah, I was able to hear it, but the intonation pattern made the last syllable sound like whispered to me. By the way, was the intonation pattern in that sentence... natural?

It's a bit hard so say without the broader context. The intonation does not strike me as a question, if that's what you mean. However it does suggest that he seems to think there is more to be said about the fact that he hasn't had a