Timeline for "What is in it" vs. "what is there in it"
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| Jul 15, 2015 at 18:21 | vote | accept | Englishfreak | ||
| Jun 13, 2015 at 7:32 | comment | added | F.E. | Notice that the difference in your interrogative clauses "What is inside the box?" and "What is there inside the box?" is related to the difference in their declarative versions: "X is inside the box." and "There is X inside the box." | |
| Jun 13, 2015 at 7:27 | comment | added | F.E. | Your ""What is inside the box? The toy is inside the box." would usually be: "What is inside the box? A toy is inside the box." when that toy is new to the discourse. | |
| Jun 13, 2015 at 7:20 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Your native speaker who said one is more grammatically correct is right, but uses the wrong terminology. Both are completely grammatical, but the former is more idiomatic, which is what (s)he was talking about, I'm sure. | |
| Jun 13, 2015 at 7:19 | answer | added | Catija | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 13, 2015 at 7:15 | history | edited | Englishfreak | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 13, 2015 at 7:05 | history | asked | Englishfreak | CC BY-SA 3.0 |