Timeline for How can we ask this question in an idiomatic way: "A what age student stole it?"
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| Jan 15, 2023 at 14:22 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | Not really. It might be understood, but it's incredibly awkward. Try this At what age did the student steal the school's WiFi password? | |
| Jan 15, 2023 at 13:36 | answer | added | Mari-Lou A | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 14, 2023 at 16:30 | comment | added | RonJohn | Italics would help: "A what age student stole it?" | |
| Jan 14, 2023 at 9:37 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | The same applies as in Katy's answer. "How old was that man who graduated?" or "What age was that man...?" (The version "What age are you?" is much more common in Irish English, I think because it reflects the way it is said in the Irish language.) | |
| Jan 14, 2023 at 9:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/1614185554270101506 | ||
| Jan 14, 2023 at 8:56 | comment | added | Yunus | @Kirt, It should be such a question that it should specifically bring you this as an answer, nothing more, nothing less. For example: Question: .......................................... Answer:"A 55 year old man." | |
| Jan 14, 2023 at 8:55 | comment | added | Yunus | @Kirt, Thanks for the answer. To clarify the question, Imagine that a friend told you about an interesting event like "An 50 year old man graduated from our university when I was a student in Paris." And when you want to tell about this interesting thing to someone else, you sometime notice that you can not remember the exact age of the person(was he 60 or 50 or 65). So you want to ask your friend to remind you of the man's age, not the repeat the whole event all over, as you need only the age. In such a case, you might need a structure like: "A what age man graduated from your university? | |
| Jan 14, 2023 at 6:33 | comment | added | Kirt | The construction of your sentences suggests to me that perhaps you are not asking about the literal age of the student (how old they are from birth) but rather about what year / form / class they are in the school. So if, for example, the answer was something like "A junior / a third year student / a second form student stole the password", then the question might be something like 'What class was the student in who stole the password"? (rather than "How old was the student?") Can you clarify what information the questioner is actually seeking? | |
| Jan 14, 2023 at 3:14 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jan 13, 2023 at 19:21 | answer | added | Katy | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jan 13, 2023 at 19:09 | history | asked | Yunus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |