Timeline for What verb to choose: "DO all you do is sit here?" or "IS all you do is sit here?"
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| Jul 7, 2023 at 12:43 | vote | accept | SovereignSun | ||
| Jan 14, 2018 at 15:48 | comment | added | SovereignSun | @snailplane I'm really confused with the difference between using "to" or not using it. | |
| Jan 14, 2018 at 15:44 | comment | added | user230 | @Soha That's also ungrammatical, at least in Standard English. | |
| Jan 13, 2018 at 1:09 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/951984434034761728 | ||
| S Jan 12, 2018 at 22:17 | history | edited | ColleenV | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Made the title more descriptive
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| Jan 12, 2018 at 19:40 | answer | added | Jason | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 12, 2018 at 17:12 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Jan 12, 2018 at 17:01 | comment | added | Soha Farhin Pine | @snailplane How about "All what you do is sit here?" then? | |
| Jan 12, 2018 at 15:34 | answer | added | psmears | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 12, 2018 at 7:52 | comment | added | SovereignSun | @CookieMonster yeh, I know about the "sitting" way but I'd like to avoid it just yet. | |
| Jan 12, 2018 at 7:37 | comment | added | Michael Rybkin | How about this one: Is sitting here all you do? | |
| Jan 12, 2018 at 7:35 | answer | added | Jeff Morrow | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jan 12, 2018 at 7:28 | comment | added | SovereignSun | I was thinking from the point of view of the declarative sentence: "Sit here is all you do" so we get "All you do is sit here?" as an exclamative interrogative sentence. But I need a clear interrogative sentence. | |
| Jan 12, 2018 at 7:22 | comment | added | Michael Rybkin | How can you have two main verbs in a single sentence? Is he is here? Would that make any sense to you? | |
| Jan 12, 2018 at 7:22 | comment | added | user230 | @MaulikV That's actually not the right answer either. | |
| Jan 12, 2018 at 7:10 | comment | added | Maulik V | None! What all you do is sit here? | |
| Jan 12, 2018 at 7:06 | history | asked | SovereignSun | CC BY-SA 3.0 |