Re: Conpunct
| From: | Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 8, 1998, 2:04 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
>Kristian Jensen wrote:
>> statements: 'h`n
>> 'The shops are `open.
>
>But, you can also say as a yes/no question:
>The shops are open?, in which case a preceding inverted question
>mark would be quite useful.
>
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?"
Regards,
-Kristian- 8-)