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Vocabulary
Indirect question or noun phrase?
What a world we live in.
Is the sentence above an indirect question in which "do" is ellipted (before pronoun "we"), or is it a noun phrase in which "What a world" is the head of the phrase and "a world we live in" (a relative clause with the ellipted relative pronoun) its modifier?
Is the sentence above an indirect question in which "do" is ellipted (before pronoun "we"), or is it a noun phrase in which "What a world" is the head of the phrase and "a world we live in" (a relative clause with the ellipted relative pronoun) its modifier?
Top answer
"What a world" is the complement of the preposition "in" It is not a question. It is a statement. The inverted construction is for emphasis.
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"What a world" is the complement of the preposition "in"
It is not a question. It is a statement.
The inverted construction is for emphasis. It is similar to the emphatic style of the cleft sentence.
What a good boy your Johnny is!
What a grand party that was!
It is not a question. It is a statement.
The inverted construction is for emphasis. It is similar to the emphatic style of the cleft sentence.
What a good boy your Johnny is!
What a grand party that was!
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