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 #2 (permalink) Mon Jun 19, 2006 10:15 am Inversion (was it / it was) |
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| Hi,Tamara!You should use it was |
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| #3 (permalink) Mon Jun 19, 2006 10:18 am Inversion (was it / it was) |
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| It's a compound sentence and question form was already put do you think |
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| #4 (permalink) Mon Jun 19, 2006 12:37 pm Inversion (was it / it was) |
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Hi Tamara
In your particular sentence, I would do one of the following:
1. Simply omit "was it/it was" since they're not necessary:
Do you think now the situation was really so dangerous OR just exaggeration in your mind?
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2. Repeat the "Do you think" (followed by no inversion):
Do you think now the situation was really so dangerous OR do you think it was just exaggeration in your mind?
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3. Invert ("was it")
Do you think now the situation was really so dangerous OR was it just exaggeration in your mind?
The reason for an inversion would be: By including the words "was" and "it", you are repeating something that otherwise wouldn't need to be repeated in the sentence. And for that reason I would treat the whole second half of the sentence as a separate question. i.e., invert subject and verb. The second half of the sentence may be less a question of what "you now think". Instead, it may be more a suggestion of what the speaker thinks. :lol:
Just my two cents.
Amy
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| #5 (permalink) Mon Jun 19, 2006 12:45 pm Inversion (was it / it was) |
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Dear Amy
You wrote:
"Just my two cents."
Meaning? :D Please
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| #6 (permalink) Mon Jun 19, 2006 12:51 pm Inversion (was it / it was) |
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Hi Tom :D
It's a short form of a well-known idiom:
http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxputino.html
Amy
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| #7 (permalink) Mon Jun 19, 2006 20:52 pm Inversion (was it / it was) |
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Thanks Guest. Thanks Amy, your 'two cents' are very valued :)
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| I would treat the whole second half of the sentence as a separate question. i.e., invert subject and verb. The second half of the sentence may be less a question of what "you now think". Instead, it may be more a suggestion of what the speaker thinks. :D |
As by 10.20 a.m. (the time I was forced to go) I’d had the only opinion (Guest's & my own), I’ve put it was in my initial sentence.
Now, in the evening, I’ve had the objective result: my tutor (native) had corrected it (was it) and, at my puzzled question, gave the similar rationale (as in Amy’s 3th case).
And now I've got school lines ;-)
P.S.
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| similar to British "twopenny-halfpenny" |
It reminded me the soundtrack of Mary Poppins (196?) 'Feed the birds, tuppence a bag ... Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag…'
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