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| E.g. How do you ask the question whose answer is "George W. Bush is the forty-third president of the U.S.A." ? Do you say, "What order is GWB in the list of US presidents?" What about children in a family? E.g. The question whose answer is, "Jimmy is the 4th child in the family. " Do you ask, "Which order is Jimmy in your list of children?" I doubt that. Same goes for number of visitors. If I want to ask what "n-th" visitor I am to this place, how do I do that? I hope I am getting through with my badly worded question. Thanks. |
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| It's not an easy one this- we have had the question before: http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/as...-question.html It is hard to think of a natural questionf for this. I'd probably use 'Where does GWB come in the list/order of presidents?' For children too: http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/as...h-teacher.html It is possibleto ask 'Where do you come/fall in the family?' |
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