Is she not a girl? Isn't she a girl? Am I not here? Am not I here?   Are tey all correct or right structured?
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(1) Does he not know? (2) Doesn't he know?  I don't usually see and hear questions formed in the first style. I was even surprised to know that it is grammatically correct. And actually it is the most &quot;proper&quot; way to form an interrogative sentence.  shows that the first style was much more popular before than now. What are your suggestions on choosing between these styles? And I will probably add the third one.  (3) He does not know?  EDIT: The answers have explained how to form a question, but have not actually provided an account on the usage of the first two forms. Especially I'm interested in the first form: does it sound formal, is it used in speech or only in writing, et cetera.
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She is a well-developed, tall, young woman. She is a tall, young, well-developed woman.   In the sentences, which order of adjectives is correct? I'd like to know the rule for placing various adjectives.
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If she be found guilty… ()   I got a curiosity what difference there is when I put ‘is’ instead of ‘be.’ The dictionary says ‘is’ is used in spoken language. Is that all? Is there no semantic difference at all?
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Which of the following is correct?        There were 10 people that went to the store.   There were 10 people who went to the store.      Edit:  Which of the following is correct?        There were 10 people that had brown hair.   There were 10 people who had brown hair.
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I have heard "What does she look like" said a lot and sometimes "How does she look like?". Is there any difference between them, if yes What is the difference between them?
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I know these sentences are correct:     I am going home.      I am coming home.      I went home.   Please let me know, are these sentences also correct or not:     I am going to her home.      I am coming to your home.      I went to his home/house.   Or these are correct:     I went her home.      I am going her home.   Thanks in advance.
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It is a well known fact that Alex is more soft-spoken than (she/her).    Why would "her" be wrong? Why must the sentence end with "she"?
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• She has a child  Questions for the above example:     Does she have a child? (This could be the common question for the above sentence as far as I know)   My question is,   Is it possible to make a question with "Has she" for the above sentence? like Has she........? )  If both are wrong, please help me with some examples.  Please help. Thanks in advance.
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We always change subject and verb positions in whenever we want to ask a question such as "What is your name?". But when it comes to statements like the following, which form is correct?        I don't understand what are you talking about.   I don't understand what you are talking about.      Another example        Do you know what time is it?   Do you know what time it is?      Another example        Do you care how do I feel about this?   Do you care how I feel about this?
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Upon answering the telephone, the person calling asks if Joan is available. If Joan is the person who answered the phone, should she say "This is her" or "This is she"?
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I'm wondering how it is correct to structure sentence and what punctuation should be used. In particular, is the next sentence correct:     I was wondering if there's any progress on the issue.    Or should I put a question mark in the end of it. Also, can it be restructured to:     I was wondering: is there any progress on the issue?
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Hello native English speakers!  I want to ask you about either and both. I tried to find similar questions in this site but I think they were not same with these ones.  My questions are;   I was invited to two parties, but I couldn't go to ------- of them.  I took two books with me on holidays, but I didn't read ------- of     them.   I choose both for questions 1 and 2. But the right answers were either. But I think both and either are correct either. Am I right?   Thank you in advance!
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When people talking about their gender pronouns, why do people use all 3 components?  For example, I identify myself as a male, so I understand the use of "HE", but why people use "HE/HIM/HIS"? Is it possible to have your gender pronoun as "HE/HER/THEM"?  (FYI, I'm not a native English speaker but fluent)
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Over the past week we've been busy reviewing our previous FAQ to directly address concerns over pronoun usage. We tried to anticipate likely questions, but… missed the mark a bit. Inspired by the Community's excellent curated one, we created a new combined FAQ and, after running it by the moderator team, we're happy to officially release it. Check it out in its new question:   We know some of you may still have questions or additional clarification on some points. We're happy to further improve the wording of either questions or answers or add answers to new questions. This post here is the place to talk through that. For ease of voting and responding, please limit each answer to one specific concern.  However, note that debating the core of the new rule ("please use stated pronouns") or the validity of people's identities or gender expressions is off-topic for this post, and we won't be entertaining those debates at this point and posts that aren't questions or requests for clarification may be deleted.  Please also note that the FAQ is very long as it is but the questions in it represent a broad spectrum of questions we've seen repeatedly over the last weeks. It doesn't cover many edge cases as an FAQ is not meant to cover/address every edge case that may come up - trying to preemptively legislate for everything hypothetically is a bad practice. Some of the bridges we will have to cross when we get to them, and the Community Management team will work with Moderators to deal with those as they come.  So, with all that said... Here's the place to post your requests for clarification/new questions.
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if someone asks me or if there is a question in exams like "who is the author of Xxx book?" Should I answer in the past or present tense,like "Yyy is/was the author of Xxx book". I know the author is not alive.
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Context: I am a non-binary user who uses singular they as my chosen pronoun. I'm also a relatively new user who just started paying attention to meta right when the situation over the sudden firing of a moderator was becoming a thing.  First, my thoughts on the Monica situation (). From what I've been able to glean about the situation I personally believe that SE mishandled the situation. I feel that they violated their own rules and values by moving way too quickly. I would like it if the issue of Monica's rehiring was put before the moderators and that they would be allowed to make a decision on how things should proceed on that front.  Now onto what I feel about the whole CoC drama. I personally think this situation has been mishandled by both the community and SE. I personally feel that SE should've delayed the release of the new change until after the Monica situation was fully dealt with. This would've allowed for people to disassociate this new change from the previous situation and would've allowed users to approach it with a perspective untainted by anger.   While I do feel SE is at fault for how this was received I also feel that some of the communities' reaction, especially the lashing out at members of the LGBTQ+ community, has been completely inappropriate. Within the past few weeks, I feel like I haven't been welcome here. I have felt attacked and demonized simply because of who I am. It honestly makes me hurt and sad that a community that I had felt was a bastion of rational thought has descended into fights over what I feel should not be a difficult question, but a trivial decision to extend a certain group of people a basic amount of human respect.  While I do feel that many protesting these changes have good intentions I still feel that many hurtful and disrespectful things have been said. whether they were intentional or not doesn't matter. I feel that both the community and SE should hold a burden of shame when it comes to this.  How we can resolve this current drama? And how we can do it without causing further harm to vulnerable groups?
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I want to ask about two sentences, and what would be the correct way to form a question:     It's very important that we eat healthy food, ...........?     Which would be the correct question tag: (isn't it) or (don't we)?      It's a must that all applicants follow the rules of the competition, ..........?    Which would the correct question tag: (isn't it) or (don't they) or (mustn't they)?   Please could you tell me the correct answers, and, more importantly, why those are correct?