2011-01-20, 02:21 AM
Okay folks, this has been a mindf'uck for me long enough so I'ma get it done with. I don't know how to express it so just bear with me.
Question: How do you ask for the pieces of information in bold:
- "Kennedy is our 35th president."
- "That is his fourth car."
Now then, if you're inquiring about a noun, you use "who" or "what" to replace the noun in question. If you're inquiring about time, you use "when", for places, "where", for amount "how many". I just can't think of anything that's not ridiculously lame for the order/count of some noun.
Additional: In Vietnamese, we employ the similar approach to this as English does: The first, the second, the third, the nth, etc... And when we need to flip it around into a question, we simply say "the + [how many]?"
Question: How do you ask for the pieces of information in bold:
- "Kennedy is our 35th president."
- "That is his fourth car."
Now then, if you're inquiring about a noun, you use "who" or "what" to replace the noun in question. If you're inquiring about time, you use "when", for places, "where", for amount "how many". I just can't think of anything that's not ridiculously lame for the order/count of some noun.
Additional: In Vietnamese, we employ the similar approach to this as English does: The first, the second, the third, the nth, etc... And when we need to flip it around into a question, we simply say "the + [how many]?"