New answers tagged subject-auxiliary-inversion
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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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