Timeline for "What do you think" + Indirect question?
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| Oct 10, 2020 at 11:19 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Terminal 'are' would be ludicrous with this one. I'd find the 'uninverted' remedy awkward here, though; in conversation. So (if I felt the hedging intro better) I'd use "Can I ask you this: what would you say are the... | |
| Oct 7, 2020 at 14:50 | answer | added | Ana Perez | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 4, 2020 at 21:16 | comment | added | Ana Perez | Dear Edwin Ashworth, following your train of thought, shall we say then: "could you tell me what ARE the best advantages and the worst disadvantages of countryside life for parents with little children at school age?", without placing "ARE" at the end? | |
| Oct 4, 2020 at 21:05 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Oct 4, 2020 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1312814749277659136 | ||
| Oct 4, 2020 at 16:47 | comment | added | Ram Pillai | Here, 'do you think' has a parenthetical meaning. It should have two commas like "What, do you think, are the advantages and disadvantages of city life?" | |
| Oct 4, 2020 at 15:53 | comment | added | Shoe | I think @Mari-Lou has it right here. Placing are after a long subject contravenes the principle of "end-weight". It's even more apparent if the subject is extended: What do you think the advantages and disadvantages of city life in these difficult times are? In fact, I would not regard the original sentence as an error. | |
| Oct 4, 2020 at 15:08 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | We're gonna get these allegators. // << What, do you think, are these objects? >> probably needs the commas to offset the almost speech-tag analogue, modal / conversational lubricant parenthetical pragmatic marker do you think here (the matrix sentence being the question << What are these objects? >> The commas become less necessary and in fact clunky with the weightier are the advantages and disadvantages of city life? (but are still an option, if dramatic pauses are preferred). | |
| Oct 4, 2020 at 14:59 | history | edited | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 4, 2020 at 14:56 | answer | added | John Lawler | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 4, 2020 at 13:22 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 4, 2020 at 13:19 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | We all slip up, even an English language text book writer. It might do with the length of the subject, so the speaker uses the more familiar pattern for questions, i.e. inverting the auxiliary (are) with the subject (the advantages and disadvantages of city life). | |
| Oct 4, 2020 at 13:13 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 4, 2020 at 13:08 | comment | added | Hot Licks | "What are the advantages and disadvantages of city life?" | |
| Oct 4, 2020 at 13:05 | history | asked | Ana Perez | CC BY-SA 4.0 |