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From :   mustkillpreps

Date : 2008-08-11 / 02:57PM

This is great, iam learning a lot. iam only confused on “ma”. how and when do you use it during a question?

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DaisyLiang

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2008-08-11 / 03:53PM

most questions all can use “ma” ^^ i think

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benny

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2008-08-11 / 05:33PM

Hi, “ma” is a question word which is put at the end of the sentence to indicate the question, but when the sentence already has a questions word like: what, when, how, how much..etc. In this case, we don’t need to put “ma”

Benny



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