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Sentence #960765

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Quazel Quazel June 26, 2011 June 26, 2011 at 5:04:40 PM UTC flag Report link Permalink

@NNC for my english ~

alexmarcelo alexmarcelo June 26, 2011 June 26, 2011 at 5:06:29 PM UTC flag Report link Permalink

I see a space before the question mark...

Quazel Quazel June 26, 2011 June 26, 2011 at 5:13:36 PM UTC flag Report link Permalink

Oh, you're right ! Moreover, I've been careful for the first one >_<

Zifre Zifre June 26, 2011 June 26, 2011 at 5:19:35 PM UTC flag Report link Permalink

*scarf?

Quazel Quazel June 26, 2011 June 26, 2011 at 5:25:49 PM UTC flag Report link Permalink

Yeah you're also right ! I seriously need to review what I write...

Zifre Zifre June 27, 2011 June 27, 2011 at 2:28:19 AM UTC flag Report link Permalink

I agree with CK on the numbers.

Also, as CK pointed out, the "normal" way to form a question like this is "Don't you...?", but "You don't...?" (the current word order) is fine in spoken English. To me it implies more surprise at the fact that there is nothing cheaper than the "normal" word order.

Quazel Quazel June 27, 2011 June 27, 2011 at 7:45:58 AM UTC flag Report link Permalink

Oh I didn't know for numbers in the beginning of a sentence :O Thanks!

Heinz Heinz July 2, 2011 July 2, 2011 at 1:21:03 PM UTC flag Report link Permalink

This is known as a tag-question.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_question
Forty Euros for a scarf, don't you have anything cheaper?

This would be the most correct way.
1 Use a comma instead of a question mark after the first clause.
2 Capitalise Euros since it is the name of a currency.
3 Put the ‘to be’ or in this case ‘to do’ at the beginning of the second clause.
But in conversation nearly anything goes.

Cheers
Heinz

FeuDRenais FeuDRenais July 2, 2011 July 2, 2011 at 5:35:14 PM UTC flag Report link Permalink

I like the current version, as it matches the French (which also uses intonation and not inversion for the question). Euros is lowercase, I believe.

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This sentence was initially added as a translation of sentence #58700840 euros pour une écharpe ? Vous n'avez rien de moins cher ?.

40 euros for a scarp? You don't have anything cheaper ?

added by Quazel, June 26, 2011

40 euros for a scarp? You don't have anything cheaper?

edited by Quazel, June 26, 2011

40 euros for a scarf? You don't have anything cheaper?

edited by Quazel, June 26, 2011

Forty euros for a scarf? You don't have anything cheaper?

edited by Quazel, June 27, 2011