Timeline for Could you tell me whether this sentence is an inverted sentence?
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| Apr 29, 2017 at 0:04 | vote | accept | GoingMyWay | ||
| S Apr 28, 2017 at 20:38 | history | suggested | Tulains Córdova | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Title corrected for grammar
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| Apr 28, 2017 at 19:53 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/858046541361291265 | ||
| Apr 28, 2017 at 15:18 | answer | added | StoneyB on hiatus | timeline score: 8 | |
| Apr 28, 2017 at 15:07 | comment | added | SteveES | I can't answer definitively whether this counts as an inversion or not, but I can tell you that the "for" is associated with the "how long". If you were to rearrange it, you would get "for how long can I hang on to them?". I guess it is perhaps an inversion, because it is a question(?). The statement would be "I can hang on to them for a week [or some other length of time]." | |
| Apr 28, 2017 at 14:32 | history | asked | GoingMyWay | CC BY-SA 3.0 |