Sentence of the Day - verb placement in a question
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Sentence from my other site: ¿El libre albedrío es sólo una ilusión?
Translation from my other site: Is free will only an illusion?
When asking a question should you place the verb 1st? as...
¿Es el libre albedrío sólo una ilusión?
The sentence, as shown above, looks more like a statement and not a question and I would have translated it as "Free will is only an illusion."
Of course I may be totally not seeing the right picture here so any input would be appreciated.
Gracias
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updated Jan 15, 2012
posted by foxluv
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Wordorder is very flexible in Spanish, the main thing is: Put your question marks in, they alert the reader to a question and the reader will, if speaking aloud, alter the intonation.
Somebody else will explain about word order for you!
updated Jan 15, 2012
posted by annierats
