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Example 20-166
How can measure ship with one mast?
How
how
can
can
measure
measure
ship
ship
with
with
one
one
mast?
mast
How can I measure a ship with only one mast?
Comment:
This example is from the CPE1 corpus (Baker 2003a). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Noble 1762
: 169
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Interrogative pronouns: Four compound expressions
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