[General] Rhetorical questions

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angelsrolls

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I heard an English-speaking person say to herself "what nonsense I am talking?" This certainly is not a question, but an incomplete sentence. Is it something to do with it being a rhetorical question?
 

emsr2d2

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If they definitely said "What nonsense I am talking!", it was an exclamation, not a question of any kind. Even a rhetorical question would take the word order "What nonsense am I talking?"
 
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