Timeline for meaning of "is there" in a sentence
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| Mar 3, 2016 at 21:36 | history | edited | user230 |
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| Mar 3, 2016 at 21:23 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | It's just an "embedded" tag question. You could parse the example as a contracted form of There’s no point, is there? [I mean, there's no point in] prettying myself up... OR you could assume the tag question has simply been moved from the end of the statement/question to a point nearer the front. | |
| Mar 3, 2016 at 21:03 | answer | added | TimR | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 3, 2016 at 19:39 | vote | accept | bart-leby | ||
| Mar 3, 2016 at 19:06 | answer | added | cccg03 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 3, 2016 at 18:50 | history | asked | bart-leby | CC BY-SA 3.0 |