Which one of these sentence structure is better?

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scott833

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What did you lie about/ what was it that you ie about?
 

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What did you lie about? What was it that you lied about?

Better in what respect? They are both grammatically correct sentences. I would use the first, but only because they mean the same thing and the first uses fewer words!
 

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emsr2d2, isn't it better to ask the second one as;
What was that (that) you lied about?

And what do you think about the version with the noun form? ; What was that lie about ?
 
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