Timeline for "How do you call it" vs "How you call it" vs "How it's called", which way is correct?
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Nov 4, 2019 at 16:57 | comment | added | John Lawler | I would not use how in most of these; what it's called refers to the word, while ?_how it's called_ refers to method or means, and that's not the way English speakers refer to talking. As for the grammar, if a Wh-question is made into a subordinate clause (an "embedded question" clause), then it doesn't invert the subject and auxiliary (and consequently doesn't need Do-Support). | |
| Nov 4, 2019 at 16:41 | answer | added | Tuffy | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Nov 4, 2019 at 16:18 | answer | added | Jvlnarasimharao | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 4, 2019 at 16:06 | comment | added | GEdgar | If English is not your native language, then you may get better answers to questions like this at: ell.stackexchange.com | |
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| Nov 4, 2019 at 15:14 | history | asked | user366363 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |