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Use of often in interrogative sentences Wed Apr 18, 2007 16:43 pm  Use of often in interrogative sentences
 

Salam.
Can someone please help me. I had a question in my recent English exam. It was to translate a sentence to English.

I wrote : Do your friends come here often?

Is this grammatically correct to use "often" at the end of an interrogative sentence? or should it have been:

Do your friends often come here?

Thankyou.
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Use of often in interrogative sentences Wed Apr 18, 2007 18:21 pm  Use of often in interrogative sentences
 

Hi,

Both seem all right to me. By putting 'often' before 'come' you are just emphasising the frequency of the times 'your friends' come.

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Thankyou Mr. Alan. I am very grateful.
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