Re: Conpunct
| From: | Sam Bryant <sam_bryant@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 8, 1998, 2:42 |
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>True... but you'd still *normally* _write_ "ARE the shops open?" if
>this was a yes/no question and "The shops are open" if this was a
>statement. I was generalizing. It also seems to me that written
>English is a bit different from spoken English. One does not
>*normally* _write_ a yes/no question as: "The shops are open?"
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>Regards,
>-Kristian- 8-)
Depends on the context. If, writing dialoge or responding to an email, someone
said, directly or implicitly, that the shops were open, I would say "the shops
are open?". But if, on the other hand, someone made some plan requiring the
shops to be open and I wasn't sure on that point, I would say "ARE the shops
open?".
ever green
sam