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Old 16-Jan-2008, 12:58
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Default Re: Why should "be" be here?

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Hi riverkid,

Sorry if it's a naive question, but what does Bm stand for?

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Hi ricky, I thought it had been a mistake. Let's see if river can expand on this one..

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Default Re: Why should "be" be here?

I can't catch your question. Sometimes interrogative pronoun serves as the subject of a question. And in this case we use direct word order. A conjunctive pronoun may also serve as the subject of a subordinate clause.

What would be your last meal?

What would you like to drink?

Subject, predicate, object.


Your exapmles are Ok concerning the subject. But grammatically - Who is Ricky? And I failed to imagine this question in a real situation. I suppose it is not used. Who is he? is a question agout the name of a person. What is he? - rather old fashioned, nevertheless it is about the occupation. What is the last name of Ricky?

If you want some rule, you can review the topic "Special questions" in any textbook. Unfortunately I don't have such a textbook in English at hand. Otherwise I could send it to you.

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