Timeline for subject inversion after a question word within a clause
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| Dec 28, 2016 at 14:33 | answer | added | BillJ | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 20:03 | comment | added | BillJ | "I didn't know where she went" is correct. "Where she went" is a subordinate interrogative clause (embedded question), so no inversion is required. The meaning is "I didn't know the answer to the question 'Where did she go?"'. | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 19:46 | answer | added | Davyd | timeline score: -1 | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 19:29 | history | edited | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
tidied up formatting
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| Dec 27, 2016 at 19:23 | review | First posts | |||
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| Dec 27, 2016 at 19:18 | history | asked | Abdo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |