Name: What They Really Mean: Questions As Warnings
Uploaded: 2018-05-22T19:03:08.000Z
Duration: 4 min 29 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

if you want to understand what people really mean.

Claire: Of course Mark is wearing that hat,

Chloe: Oh right.... Where did you get that hat?

Mark: I just picked it up down the market.

it means that I can really admire my new hat.

but all she did was just ask me some questions.

Claire: These were questions used as warnings.

she could see that he was looking in the mirror.

She was just trying to draw his attention

Now, these questions are written in the same way

so to spot them try asking yourself this:

often use the same intonation as a statement.

but they can be about lots of different things

Mark: I feel like I want to try that again.

Chloe: Are you still off to Dave's party?

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What They Really Mean: Questions As Warnings

obvious

essential

ridiculous

context