Which is the correctly phrased sentence?

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Which of the following sentences is correctly phrased?

1. Do you know who the inventor of the aeroplane is?
2. Do you know who is the inventor of the aeroplane?

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@tanguatlay,

50 years ago 2. Also explore the use of whom. These days it's a free for all.

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@Chinspinner,

Huh?

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@tanguatlay,

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1. Do you know who the inventor of the aeroplane is?

is better, but I would rather say "Do you know who the inventor of the aeroplane was."

Airplane is the more common word, but I wouldn't fault "aeroplane" when speaking of the early days of aviation.

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@roger,

You a yank Roger? Still aeroplane on the other side of the pond mate.

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@tanguatlay,

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Which of the following sentences is correctly phrased?

1. Do you know who the inventor of the aeroplane is?
2. Do you know who is the inventor of the aeroplane?

Both are correct, Ms Tan. The first is a more normal neutral.

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@JTT,

yeh what jt said

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@JTT,

Thanks, JTT.

1. Do you know who the inventor of the aeroplane is (was)?
2. Do you know who is (was) the inventor of the aeroplane?

Roger prefers 'was'. I believe the fact is the inventor has passed away. So, to you, is it better to use 'was'?

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@tanguatlay,

Using 'was' is neither better or worse. It's simply a choice we make, depending on our focus.

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@roger,

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Airplane is the more common word

In America.

In Britain, it's not a word. The word is aeroplane.

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@McTag,

Is it a general problem with words that have more than two syllables? Jaguar, pronounced jagwar and double-u pronounced dubya.

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@izzythepush,

I don't think so. Americans like big words. They use "gubernatorial" as often as they reasonably can.
And "momentarily", usually wrongly. Wink

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@izzythepush,

get out of here you stalker
and can any body plz tell me how to qoute
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im beggin

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@samyboy27,

If you can't see a bunch of squares/rectangles filled with B, i, u, Quote, etc above the Reply box, then click on "Open BBCode Editor".

Then you will all the various options you have, including the 'quote' option.

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@samyboy27,

samyboy27 wrote:

get out of here you stalker

Nobody in their right mind would want to stalk a sorry specimen like yourself, unless they had a particular interest in genetic abnormalities.

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@McTag,

This from the nation of clowns who gave us antidisestablishmentarianism . . .

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@Setanta,

And English.

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@izzythepush,

Ah, but i've forgiven you that . . .

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@roger,

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thanks man]

[woohoo]shut up izzy

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@samyboy27,

i did that wrong

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thanks jtt

[shut up izzy/color]

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