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Which is the correct: When time does the play begin? or What time does the play begin?
Sep 4, 2008 3:44 PM
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4
What time does the play begin?
September 4, 2008
4
The second one is correct.
"When" has the idea of "what time" already, so it's unnatural/redundant to add the word "time" to "when".
You can change the first sentence of yours into "When does the play begin?" though.
September 4, 2008
2
What time does the play begin ?
It is correct.
September 4, 2008
1
either when does the play begin or what time does the play begin will do
September 11, 2008
1
what time does the play begin ?
or if you want to use "when" you must say :
when the play begins ?
the first one is more formal
September 4, 2008
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