[Grammar] Does it mean

[suniljain]

Does it mean starvation has increased in Srilanka?

Can we use "has" in the above sentence?

 

[5jj]

It depends on the time period previously referred to.

 

[Rover_KE]

Your thread is desperately short of context, suniljain.

'Sri Lanka' is usually written like that.

 

[GoesStation]

Does it mean starvation has increased in Srilanka?

You forgot to include the sentence you're asking about.

 

[suniljain]

You forgot to include the sentence you're asking about.

The context is that someone has shared some recent data in Whatsapp then on the basis of that I wanted to ask this question.

Does it mean starvation has increased in Sri Lanka?

Is "has" a main verb here? I think answer is yes.

 

[GoesStation]

I wanted to ask this question:

"Does it mean starvation has increased in Sri Lanka?"

Is "has" a main verb here? I think the answer is yes.

It's an auxiliary verb. The main verb is the present perfect "has increased".

 

[jutfrank]

The main verb is increased and has is the auxiliary verb. Together they form the present perfect.

 

[suniljain]

The main verb is increased and has is the auxiliary verb. Together they form the present perfect.

Does it mean that we can have two auxiliary verb in a sentence like "Does" and "has" in the given example?

 

[5jj]

Yes.

 

[emsr2d2]

The context is that someone has shared some recent data [strike]in[/strike] on/via WhatsApp and then, on the basis of that data, I wanted to ask this question.

"Does it mean starvation has increased in Sri Lanka?"

Is "has" a main verb here? I think the answer is yes.

Please note my corrections above.

 

[suniljain]

Please note my corrections above.

Is "data" after "that" is compulsory?

 

[suniljain]

Yes.

Could you please share few examples?

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

The context is that someone has shared some recent data in Whatsapp. Then, on the basis of that, I wanted to ask this question.

Does it mean starvation has increased in Sri Lanka?

Does WHAT mean starvation has increased in Sri Lanka?

Is "has" a main verb here? I think answer is yes.

Why not "has increased"?

You have not given us the information requested in post #4.

We can't know what it means if we don't know what it says.

If you tell us what the sentence says we can tell you what it means.

 

[emsr2d2]

Could you please share a few examples?

emsr2d2

 

[5jj]

Could you please share a few examples?

Are you saying that you haven't found any yourself?

 

[suniljain]

Are you saying that you haven't found any yourself?

Let me try as below-

The way you have answered my question is wonderful.

 

[suniljain]

emsr2d2

Is using "a" compulsory?

 

[tzfujimino]

Is "data" after "that" [STRIKE]is[/STRIKE] compulsory?

What do you mean?