Dear All,
Mohon koreksi teman-teman, dari kalimat berikut manakah kalimat yang benar dan kenapa.
- What exactly does it mean ?
- What does exactly it mean ?
- What exactly it means ?
- What is exactly it means ?
- What does it mean exactly ?
Best Regards,
Astroboy
4 comments
coddink
August 25, 2011
1. True: Subject-verb aggrement
2. True: adverb ‘exactly’ can be placed everywhere after WH word
3. False: Question sentence must has an auxiliary in writing english
4. True: in this sentence ‘means’ is a noun
5. True: in this sentence ‘mean’ is a verb
Correct me, mr bhas.. heheheh
tnt
August 25, 2011
Hi, emmm …. i think the correct sentence is the first one. The second sentence can be used too in spoken english but for written english the first one is more appropriate coz it places the word “exactly” before “does” which is the right sequence of constructing a sentence.
I’m not sure about other sentences …
cheers,
Swara Bhaskara
August 25, 2011
Two other possible placements are:
astroboy
August 26, 2011
Thanks all, dapat ilmu baru lagi nih
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