inverted order

Are Questions Inverted Sentences?

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Are Questions Inverted Sentences? Questions invert the subject and the verb. In other words, the verb comes first, as in this example: Are you going to need a ride home from school? Sentence inversion isn’t a foolproof method for identifying a question, however. Statements are sometimes inverted too. Are questions in inverted order? The second

What Is An Inversion Question?

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What Is An Inversion Question? Inversion in embedded questions is a phenomenon in which embedded questions have a word order more typically associated with non-embedded questions. An example is the phrase what color are we in the following example from Chicano English: 1) I don’t know what color are we, but it doesn’t matter. (