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| Mar 12, 2019 at 12:49 | comment | added | BillJ | @Araucaria Such examples are rare, though. Btw, CGEL on p.853 uses the same examples as mine, though with "generous" instead of "tactful". If they are good enough for H&P, they are good enough for me! | |
| Mar 12, 2019 at 12:36 | comment | added | Araucaria - him | Yeas, right. More often than not they don´t. However, they often do nonetheless. CamGEL talk about it, noting that there is therefore some suprficial overlap between the surace forms of interrogatives and exclamatives with SAI. I think their example s something like How hard have I worked ... | |
| Mar 12, 2019 at 7:26 | comment | added | BillJ | @Araucaria I don't think so. Exclamatives don't normally have inversion. | |
| Mar 11, 2019 at 19:53 | comment | added | Araucaria - him | I'd be tempted to use a different example for your interrogative, as it could easily be an exclamative! Perhaps use a different wh-word? | |
| Mar 11, 2019 at 16:09 | history | answered | BillJ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |