Jan 9, 2024 · When you refer to something the listener has, which question is appropriate? What is it? What is that? (What's that?) In my mother tongue, Japanese, we use sore (literally …

Feb 3, 2016 · You'll need to complete a few actions and gain 15 reputation points before being able to upvote. Upvoting indicates when questions and answers are useful. What's reputation …

Aug 21, 2020 · The semantic of what you consider to be the proper way to express this idea is actually awful, I have to say. The verb "to suppose" is used with subjects that can only be …

I wouldn't say that the phrase What is for? is completely ungrammatical. Phonetically, it sounds like you're literally asking what does the word for mean: What is "for"? (What does it mean and …

That "trick" of using a colon before camouflage is misleading. Generally speaking, in written forms, that refers to something previously mentioned. For example... "The zebra has stripes …

When entertaining a young child who is learning English, I heard some people asking her What is it? when pointing to her finger. I was surprised because I always learned to ask What is this? w...

I assume the two sentences are 1) Do you know what is it? 2) Do you know what it is? I kinda do a Google research on this and basically most people say it should be the first one but …

Jan 1, 2016 · I'd like to know what is the real meaning of this expression: Is that so? In the text where this expression was, There was an ask denied before this phrase Thanks!

Jan 3, 2016 · What's in the box? Tell me what, if anything, is inside the box. What is it in the box? That thing in the box -- tell me what it is. The speaker of the latter may be a smidgen more …

Feb 20, 2019 · What does “Last school attended” means? I have form to fill with this question. Is it year when I was in school or is it type of school? The full question is: Please fill in the …