englishhobby
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- Jun 19, 2009
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- English Teacher
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- Russian
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- Russian Federation
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Is the sentence 'Is it your niece?' more natural to identify a person? (Michael Swan's grammar book 'Practical English Usage' says it is, but in the Wikipedia they say that it's regarded as not very polite to use it in this type of sentence.)