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Question: Which sentence is correct?
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How many species do exist?
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solarstorm
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« 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.
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