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I am a non-native speaker, and to me it looks like the second captcha is wrong. According to what they've taught me, it should be "Do you know _____ are we goi
by kilburn 15y ago
I am a non-native speaker, and to me it looks like the second captcha is wrong.
According to what they've taught me, it should be "Do you know _____ are we going?" instead of the proposed "Do you know _____ we are going?", shouldn't it (notice the "we are/are we" swapping)?
- drv 15y agoNo, "Do you know where we are going?" is correct; however, without the "Do you know", "Where are we going?" would be correct.
- kilburn 15y agoThanks, it totally makes sense now. "Where we are going" was an affirmative (sub)sentence because the interrogative is already expressed in the "Do you know" part.
- kragen 15y agoThe sentence already has a VS inversion: "Do you". It is not correct standard English to add a second VS inversion, such as "are we", although it does sometimes occur in nonstandard native speech. The "we are" is in a subordinate clause, and the subordinate clause is not structured for the interrogative.