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Indirect questions and subject question words
Hello dear English knowers
Working through Longman's Adv. Grammar one thing appears to be not quite clear:
1) On one hand, for indirect questions we use a statement word order:
How long will I have to wait?
Can you tell me how long I will have to wait?
2) On the other, subject question words (what, which, who) can be both the subject and the object of a verb, which reflects on the word order again
THE QUESTION IS, who to do I formulate an indirect question in this case?
a) Who invited Jack? (who - subject)
Can you tell me who invited Jack?
b) Who did Meryl invite? (who - object)
Can you tell me who Meryl did invite? <-> this is where I stuck.
Spasibo!
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Article position
Hello dear English knowers
Sometimes, very rarely, you can find phrares in which an article comes after an adjective. Like this:
> Strangeness is no more mysterious a property of particles than is charge.
> How immense a figure she was on the stage before him; what a shadow she threw on the wall with her slender body!
> I have too painful a headache.
So,
1) Does anybody know the exact rule for such a positioning? (Am I right here?)
2) Which of the following is correct?
>> What slender a shadow she threw on the wall with her body!
>> What a slender shadow she threw on the wall with her body!
Thank you very much, this question is tickling my brain for quite a long time.
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