Inversion (was it / it was)

[Tamara]

Doing my homework I've produced the sentence:

Do you think now the situation was really so dangerous OR [was it/ it was] just exaggeration in your mind?

Now I am in doubt about the last clause: should I apply inversion after OR as well or is it the next question (by its contents)?

Help me, please...

Tamara
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[Guest]

Hi,Tamara!You should use it was

[Guest]

It's a compound sentence and question form was already put do you think

[Yankee]

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?

-- or --

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?

-- or --

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.

Just my two cents.
Amy
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Amy
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ESL teacher, translator, and a native speaker of American English

[Tom]

Dear Amy

You wrote:
"Just my two cents."

Meaning? Please

Tom

[Yankee]

Hi Tom

It's a short form of a well-known idiom:
http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxputino.html

Amy
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Amy
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ESL teacher, translator, and a native speaker of American English

[Tamara]

Thanks Guest. Thanks Amy, your 'two cents' are very valued