Timeline for Inversion in "Only when the virus introduces its nucleic acid into a cell does disease occur"
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| Jul 28, 2012 at 12:10 | comment | added | Cool Elf | No problem. The source I got that from is British btw | |
| Jul 28, 2012 at 12:03 | comment | added | Cool Elf | "Have you a towel?" is grammatical, but at least one grammar textbook says it's "less usual." The same with "I haven't a towel." | |
| Jul 28, 2012 at 11:59 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @asymptotically I’d say “Have you a towel?” is at best marginally acceptable. It’s grammatical, but nobody ever says that. They say either “Do you have a towel?” or perhaps more commonly, “Have you got a towel?”, sometimes shortened to simply “Got a towel?”. | |
| Jul 28, 2012 at 10:02 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | Have is a special case with "a foot in both camps" as I said with a very similar question | |
| Jul 28, 2012 at 7:18 | comment | added | notablytipsy | Small question... isn't "have you a towel?" acceptable? What is the difference between this and "like you strawberries?" Is is applicable only for the verb 'have'? | |
| Jul 28, 2012 at 6:03 | history | answered | Cool Elf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |