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Direct speech: Do you have the File-A? - No, I don't.

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#1 (permalink) Mon Nov 03, 2008 12:40 pm Direct speech: Do you have the File-A? - No, I don't.

Q: Do you have File-A? A: No, I don't. Is this correct construction of sentences? "I though You had the file with you, Did not You" Is this correct?

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#2 (permalink) Mon Nov 03, 2008 12:49 pm Do you have the File-A? -- No, I don't.--Is this correct.

Hi Suresh

Sureshvemuri wrote:

Q: Do you have File-A?
A: No, I don't.
---Is this correct construction of sentences.

Yes, that's fine (although I wouldn't necessarily use the hyphen).

Sureshvemuri wrote:

"I thought you had the file with you, Did not You"
Is this correct?

The beginning of your sentence is OK (with the typo corrections I've indicated), but the end of the sentence (in red) is not OK.

Here are some suggestions:

- I thought you had the file with you.
- Didn't you have the file with you?
- You had the file with you, didn't you?

If you write "didn't you" without the contraction, you should write it this way:

- did you not

In addition, using "did you not" as a tag question would be more emphatic than using "didn't you".
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