Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 2 AIL 0122 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Questions Without Do
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The idea
Older English asks by inverting, so "Know you the man?" means do you know the man. Sentences that look like statements with a question mark are usually this. The inversion, not an auxiliary, is doing the work of asking.
In practice
Inversion asks the question.
Where people slip
A question may lack do entirely.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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