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Hi, Boy, is it hot today! IS IT OK? SHOULDN'T IT RATHER BE: Boy, it is hot today! It's OK. It's just a way of using word order to add emphasis. In terms of grammar, one could argue that it is a rhetorical question (ie a question for which no real answer is expected), and that there should...

Hello Cadzao, How are you? This looks like a question, but it is not intended as one. It's intended as an exclamation. Think of it as the exclamation "What questions this will . . . has . . . laid before us!", but with an unusual, literary word order. You could also think of it as a rhetorical...

Your problem is with question marks, which you don't seem to use often.The word order is the difference between the question form (What should I do?) and the statement form (I'm torn about what I should do. Oh, I know what I should do-- I should study harder.) None of the latter end with a...

Hello, Rex Those "wh-words" mentioned serve more than one purpose in English. It is true that they are not used only in questions. There are two big groups of questions: a. "yes-no questions": these begin with a verb, usually an auxiliary, and require "yes" or "no" for an answer. the...