What is your news? Word order.

[Martina Durisova]

Is the word order in the sentence from the letter correct?
"Write me something about you and your hobbies and what is your news."
The last part is a question, but it sounds strange to me like this.
""Write me something about you and your hobbies and what your news is."
Thank you!
Martina

 

[emsr2d2]

Is the word order in the sentence from the letter correct?
"Write me something about you and your hobbies and what is your news."
The last part is a question, but it sounds strange to me like this.
""Write me something about you and your hobbies and what your news is."
Thank you!
Martina

"Write me" is a specifically AmE usage. In BrE, we use "write to me". The whole sentence is a bit of a mess though. It would be much better written something like:

Write to me and tell me something about yourself, your hobbies and what's going on in your life.

 

[SoothingDave]

It's not necessarily "write to me." It could be a teacher giving an assignment. "Write (something for) me..."

"Write to me" is about sending someone a letter or postcard.

 

[emsr2d2]

It's not necessarily "write to me." It could be a teacher giving an assignment. "Write (something for) me..."

"Write to me" is about sending someone a letter or postcard.

That's true but the OP said it was taken from a letter.

 

[SoothingDave]

That's true but the OP said it was taken from a letter.

Ah, yes. I would have seen that if I had read that part.