Timeline for Question word order in statements
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| Feb 26, 2017 at 10:00 | comment | added | BillJ | I agree with the above comment. "Why I didn't go to the doctor" is a subordinate interrogative clause (embedded question). Subject-auxiliary Inversion doesn't normally occur in such clauses, so 1. is correct. 2. is incorrect since there is inversion of the subject "I" and the auxiliary verb "didn't". | |
| Feb 25, 2017 at 20:45 | comment | added | Mohd Zulkanien Sarbini | Subject-auxiliary inversion does not occur in an embedded clause. | |
| Feb 25, 2017 at 20:17 | vote | accept | DimanNe | ||
| Feb 25, 2017 at 20:08 | answer | added | Ľubomír Masarovič | timeline score: -2 | |
| Feb 25, 2017 at 20:03 | answer | added | Stew C | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 25, 2017 at 19:56 | history | asked | DimanNe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |