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Is it correct to say “What's the happened?”?
Is it correct to say “which is Jay”?Why is there no form of “do” in questions of the type “who knows?”Difference between “How are you?” and “How are you doing?”“What ever happened to” versus “Whatever happened to”?Proper use of “what's”How do you rephrase “What does HTML stand for?”Why “[how] many”?What's the phrase/ word that can be used to describe this situation? (Non Native Speaker here)What is the term for when somebody answers your question with the same phrase as your questionWhy do some people say things like “Would you like the salt and pepper” when they are in fact wanting it
I would say just "What happened?", but I've heard this also.
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Are you sure it's not "What the bleep happened?", with "bleep" kind of swallowed?
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Are you sure it's not "What the bleep happened?", with "bleep" kind of swallowed?
– Hot Licks
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Are you sure it's not "What the bleep happened?", with "bleep" kind of swallowed?
– Hot Licks
5 hours ago
Are you sure it's not "What the bleep happened?", with "bleep" kind of swallowed?
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5 hours ago
Are you sure it's not "What the bleep happened?", with "bleep" kind of swallowed?
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No. The reason is that "happened" is not a noun, it is the past tense of a verb. Verbs do not take the definite article "the."
Some proper ways to express the question:
What happened?
What has happened?
What's happened?
The last one is a contraction of "What has happened?"
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I guess you were thinking of something like "What's the [missing word] happened"
You can build a sentence in this way if you use a noun instead of a missing word.
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Could you give an example of what you mean?
– Tim Foster
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What the heck happened.
– Elissa Smart
6 hours ago
In that case could you edit your answer to "What the [missing word] happened?"
– Tim Foster
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sorry, it was a typo
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6 hours ago
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No. The reason is that "happened" is not a noun, it is the past tense of a verb. Verbs do not take the definite article "the."
Some proper ways to express the question:
What happened?
What has happened?
What's happened?
The last one is a contraction of "What has happened?"
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No. The reason is that "happened" is not a noun, it is the past tense of a verb. Verbs do not take the definite article "the."
Some proper ways to express the question:
What happened?
What has happened?
What's happened?
The last one is a contraction of "What has happened?"
answered 7 hours ago
DamilaDamila
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No. The reason is that "happened" is not a noun, it is the past tense of a verb. Verbs do not take the definite article "the."
Some proper ways to express the question:
What happened?
What has happened?
What's happened?
The last one is a contraction of "What has happened?"
answered 7 hours ago
DamilaDamila
4077
No. The reason is that "happened" is not a noun, it is the past tense of a verb. Verbs do not take the definite article "the."
Some proper ways to express the question:
What happened?
What has happened?
What's happened?
The last one is a contraction of "What has happened?"
answered 7 hours ago
DamilaDamila
4077
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I guess you were thinking of something like "What's the [missing word] happened"
You can build a sentence in this way if you use a noun instead of a missing word.
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Could you give an example of what you mean?
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What the heck happened.
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In that case could you edit your answer to "What the [missing word] happened?"
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sorry, it was a typo
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I guess you were thinking of something like "What's the [missing word] happened"
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What the heck happened.
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In that case could you edit your answer to "What the [missing word] happened?"
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sorry, it was a typo
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I guess you were thinking of something like "What's the [missing word] happened"
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Could you give an example of what you mean?
– Tim Foster
6 hours ago
What the heck happened.
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6 hours ago
In that case could you edit your answer to "What the [missing word] happened?"
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sorry, it was a typo
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Could you give an example of what you mean?
– Tim Foster
6 hours ago
What the heck happened.
– Elissa Smart
6 hours ago
In that case could you edit your answer to "What the [missing word] happened?"
– Tim Foster
6 hours ago
sorry, it was a typo
– Elissa Smart
6 hours ago
Could you give an example of what you mean?
– Tim Foster
6 hours ago
Could you give an example of what you mean?
– Tim Foster
6 hours ago
What the heck happened.
– Elissa Smart
6 hours ago
What the heck happened.
– Elissa Smart
6 hours ago
In that case could you edit your answer to "What the [missing word] happened?"
– Tim Foster
6 hours ago
In that case could you edit your answer to "What the [missing word] happened?"
– Tim Foster
6 hours ago
sorry, it was a typo
– Elissa Smart
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sorry, it was a typo
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