Why does everybody want to help me whenever i need someone's help Can you please explain to me the difference in mean. What is the difference between these two sentences 1 ) please tell me why is it like that (should i put question mark at the end) 2 ) please tell me why it is like that Googling 'for why' (in quotes) i discovered that there was a single word 'forwhy' in middle english.
Unlike how, what, who, where, and probably other interrogatives, why does not normally take to before its infinitive I wonder if this is dialectal, or perhaps just individual. Since we can say why can we grow taller?, why cannot we grow taller? is a logical and properly written negative We don't say why we can grow taller? so the construct should not be why we cannot grow taller? the reason is that auxiliaries should come before the subject to make an interrogative. Which one is correct and used universally I don’t owe you an explanation as to why i knocked the glass over
Is one used more than. Relative why can be freely substituted with that, like any restrictive relative marker I.e, substituting that for why in the sentences above produces exactly the same pattern of grammaticality and ungrammaticality The reason that he did it * the cause that he did it * the intention that he did it * the effect that he did it * the thing that. While listening to bob dylan songs i've heard some strange use of progressive tense (is that the correct term?), the title of this question is one example I heard other examples (always in bob's songs), but now i cannot find any
Is this some sort of ancient english The question is specifically asking why earth is so often not capitalised when used as a proper noun @tchrist there are quite a lot of proper nouns (mostly geographical) that do take definite articles, though, and are unquestionably proper nouns The us, the bronx, the thames, etc. Is there flexibility in how one can punctuate the phrase why not? the answer may seem obvious at first.it is a question after all However, it's also a common idiom, and i am
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