Rhetorical Question
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- ribit0
are you allowed to use 'totally' like that?
- Atkinson0
Sure you can, and starting with 'So', too but you're not supposed to if you stick to the rules, what ever they are. I can't think of a statement that begins with 'who', that isn't a question. I think 'can' is another one, it always precedes a question, unless you're talking about a metal can - before someone says it!
- Atkinson0
totally, way, so, like
it depends how you write, I like to read as people speak - Kerouac style. I don't like reading students' essays if they are written in that way though, eg. 'Picasso was so like the best artist of the last century, his work is like totally awesome.'
I'd like to fail an essay like that.
- rafalski0
How can you not love anal?
Antonelli
(Oct 12 07, 18:07)I've seen it both ways.
harlequino
(Oct 12 07, 18:07)
- Jaline0
sorry, ribit, my Valley Girl-ness totally shines through sometimes.
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- Jaline0
Yes, starting a sentence with the word, "who" will usually lead to a question, but then it brings me back to the question of whether or not rhetorical questions always need question marks at the end of them. While they are questions, they are not really questions. If anyone understand what I'm talking about.
Also, instead of "who", one can use "whomever" to start a sentence and not have it become a question.
- Jaline0
Also, I am aware that I used the word "question[s]" 7 times in the previous post.