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"But, says Pal, the associate professor, the people … are …" — If "says Pal + speech" is correct, is the small sentence "Said Tom, 'Hi.'" correct too?
The sentence is a little confusing because the quote marks have been left out.
Normal wording: Paul says, "Hello. I'm here."
Or: "Hello. I'm here," Paul says.
Or: "Hello. I'm ...
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"But, says Pal, the associate professor, the people … are …" — If "says Pal + speech" is correct, is the small sentence "Said Tom, 'Hi.'" correct too?
(4) is a valid construction, but it rings very archaic. Unnatural sentence ordering is occasionally used where clarity would otherwise seriously suffer—it would be justifiable in the article's ...
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Why is there inversion in "Whose gloves are these?" but not "Whose book won the prize?"?
Consider the following sentence:
(1) These are your gloves.
If we want to turn this sentence into a typical kind of question, there is indeed what is called “subject-auxiliary inversion”—the ...
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It is correct to say, “l don't know why does the food service have to be so slow”?
"Does" should not be included. You already have the verb "to be", there shouldn't be a second verb.
"Food service" is singular and so takes the singular verb "has&...
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