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Title: A question about a question Post by: solarstorm on August 02, 2012, 08:19:33 AM My gut is for the first sentence, but my brain says option 2.
It's a question for a subject, hence the auxiliary verb ought to be dropped, but I have never read an English interrogative clause containing a subject without an interrogative pronoun. Title: Re: A question about a question Post by: Yelnoc on August 02, 2012, 09:21:14 AM I don't know what your second lin means, but option B is the vernacular.
Title: Re: A question about a question Post by: Redalgo on August 02, 2012, 10:10:22 AM Both are passable in conversation or writing, really, but the first would probably be deemed a bit awkward by other people. The second line is what I consider normal.
Title: Re: A question about a question Post by: H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY on August 02, 2012, 11:10:34 AM I don't know what your second lin means, but option B is the vernacular. Title: Re: A question about a question Post by: ask_not on August 02, 2012, 06:09:20 PM i say the secound.
Title: Re: A question about a question Post by: Grumpier Than Thou on August 02, 2012, 06:36:38 PM Option 2
Title: Re: A question about a question Post by: Smid on August 02, 2012, 07:04:34 PM The first option rather reads like the Old Hundredth Hymn (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DibkDQbzEo&feature=related) - "All people that on Earth do dwell"
Title: Re: A question about a question Post by: muon2 on August 03, 2012, 04:44:38 PM The second choice would be the usual form. However, I could see using the first if the intent was to create emphasis; say the the first with an accent on "do". One might want to do that if the subject that follows was contrary to conventional wisdom on the number that exist.
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