My Hiknow student C.C. asks: Hi Joe, I have a doubt about the question:
I'm not sure of the grammar here, because I would ask:
Best regards My answer: Your sentence is correct. And so is the other one. They're both right, just different structures. I believe the grammar of the questions might become clearer if I give you not only a grammatical explanation of the questions, but also example answers to the questions in the form of complete sentences. I'll use a colour code to help demonstrate the grammar.
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In Question 1:
In Answer 1,
In Question 2:
Infinitive phrases (more info) can be used many ways. Here it's the indirect object of "does... need". In Answer 2:
I'll also give a third possibility :D 3.
In Question 3:
Participle clauses (more info), using either past participle (usually -ed) or present participle/gerund (-ing), are similar to relative clauses, giving more info about another word in the sentence. In Answer 3:
Oh boy, I just though of a fourth way! 4.
In Question 4:
In passive voice (more info), the subject receives the verb, so there is no direct object. In Answer 4:
So you see, there's more than one way to ask a question! I hope that makes clearer for you these different possibilities.
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