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- Why it is vs Why is it - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The question: "Why is [etc ]" is a question form in English: Why is the sky blue? Why is it that children require so much attention? Why is it [or some thing] like that? When that form is put into what is called indirect speech, it becomes: Please tell me why the sky is blue Please tell me why children require so much attention
- grammar - Is For why improper English? - English Language Usage . . .
"For why" (also hyphenated or written as one word) meaning "why" as a direct interrogative was used in Old and Middle English (see the MED's entry), but it became obsolete sometime around the year 1500 Other senses of the expression (for example, it was used as a conjunction meaning "because") gradually over time all dropped out of use, so the
- Why . . . ? vs. Why is it that . . . ? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
Why not: I don't know why, but it seems to me Bob would sound a bit strange if he said, "Why is it that you have to get going?" Eliminating 'that' before 'Bob' would seem to be more in context with the criticism of the way Bob sounds This beside the point that "Why do you have to get going?" is more direct
- grammaticality - Is it incorrect to say, Why cannot. . . . ? - English . . .
There are also many examples of "Why we cannot", but they are not interrogatives JForrest explains that 'cannot' is the negative form of 'can', and so 'cannot' should be placed in the same location as 'can' would be in a sentence Since we can say "Why can we grow taller?", "Why cannot we grow taller?" is a logical and properly written negative
- What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?
Why does outlet tester indicate wired correctly Where exactly does the "Ode to Joy" start and stop in Symphony no 9, opus 125, piano transcription by Liszt? How does QGIS number features, so I may find the erroneous one I get when using data analysis?
- Do you need the “why” in “Thats the reason why”? [duplicate]
The reason (why) that perception is correct is that why is a rather special relative pronoun Indeed, it's a pronoun that can only refer to one word: reason Try it with anything else and you get garbage: the reason why he did it *the cause why he did it *the intention why he did it *the effect why he did it *the thing why he did it
- Origin of Why, hello there [duplicate] - English Language Usage . . .
a1616 Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona ɪɪɪ (1623) ɪ i 33 If hap'ly won, perhaps a haplesse gaine, If lost, why then a grieuous labour won 1647 A Cowley Request in Mistress iii, If her chill heart I cannot move, Why, I'le enjoy the very Love 1719 Swift Quiet Life in Wks (1735) II 351 Why Dick, thy Wife has dev'lish whims
- etymology - What is the origin of the 7 8 9 joke? - English Language . . .
@JEL Why don't you ask the other 4 people who agreed that 'This isn't really a question about English [within the scope intended for ELU] or indeed Hot Licks in person to defend their stance? I usually try to add a reason (origin of especially Christmas-cracker standard jokes is intuitively not what ELU is about), and get more flak for trying
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