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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Question on Reason Clauses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anthony Appleyard)
Fri Aug 28 00:54:21 2015
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 05:54:07 +0100 (BST)
From: Anthony Appleyard <a.appleyard@btinternet.com>
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In the English, "why you killed him" is an "indirect question"; to distinguish this construction from an ordinary relative clause, insert "the answer to the question" before the apparent relative word: "I know (the answer to the question) why you killed him"; if the result makes sense and good grammar (apart from sounding officialese), it is an indirect question, and started as an ordinary question: "I know" + "Why killed you him?".
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In the English, "why you killed him" is an "indirect question"; to distinguish this construction from an ordinary relative clause, insert "the answer to the question" before the apparent relative word: "I know (the answer to the question) why you killed him"; if the result makes sense and good grammar (apart from sounding officialese), it is an indirect question, and started as an ordinary question: "I know" + "Why killed you him?".<br><p></p>
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