Element FORM: 'WH-' INTERROGATIVE, SUBJECT
SuperCat CLAUSES
SubCat interrogatives
Lexical Range N/A
Level B1
Cando Can form questions with a 'wh-' word as subject, without an auxiliary verb.
Corrected Learner Example What happened? (Spanish - Latin American, B1 THRESHOLD)

Who cares? (Spanish - Latin American, B1 THRESHOLD)

Who knows? (Portuguese, B1 THRESHOLD)
Uncorrected Learner Example
Comments Results dominated by Spanish/ Portuguese. Note that these are generally spoken forms.

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