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Contents overview echo questions : She's invited how many?echo questionsecho questions 30410534Speech and Spoken Exchanges304 echo questions: She's invited how many?1You're getting married?To question what has been said, a speaker may simply repeat ('echo') what he/she has heard. A rising intonation is common.'I'm getting married.''You're getting married?'2Take a look at what?To question one part of a sentence, we can repeat the rest of the sentence, and put a stressed question word in place of the part we are asking about.'Just take a look at that.''Take a look at what?''She's invited thirteen people to dinner.''She's invited how many?''We're going to Tierra del Fuego for a month.''You're going where?''I've broken the fettle gauge.''You've broken the what?'To question a verb, or the part of a sentence beginning with the verb, do what is used.'She set fire to the garage.''She did what (to the garage)?'3repeating a question: Where am I going? Home.A speaker may question a question, by repeating it with a rising intonation. Note that we use normal question structures with inverted word order, not indirect question structures, in this case.'Where are you going?''Where am I going? Home.' (not … Where I'm going? …)'What does he want?''What does he want? Money, as usual.' (not … What he wants? …)'Are you tired?''Am I tired? Of course not.' (not … Whether I'm tired? …)'Do squirrels eat insects?''Do squirrels eat insects? I'm not sure.' (not … Whether squirrels eat insects? …)Previous Next |