side question: why is the “DO” emphasized in the first post? when I try reading it like this it sounds so awkward and unnatural. shouldn’t the emphasis be on “why”?
[exasperated, while scrubbing cold black candle wax off of the dining table for the third year in a row while the recently turned 13-year old daughter raids her older sisters closets for anything velvet and purple] “WHY do teenage girls go through a witchy phase?”
[curious, after realising they never thought to ask their daughters this before] “why DO teenage girls go through a witchy phase?”
side question: why is the “DO” emphasized in the first post? when I try reading it like this it sounds so awkward and unnatural. shouldn’t the emphasis be on “why”?
[exasperated, while scrubbing cold black candle wax off of the dining table for the third year in a row while the recently turned 13-year old daughter raids her older sisters closets for anything velvet and purple] “WHY do teenage girls go through a witchy phase?”
[curious, after realising they never thought to ask their daughters this before] “why DO teenage girls go through a witchy phase?”
The emphasis on the word “do” feels pretty natural to me.
The meaning of emphasis on “why” and “do” are also slightly different I feel, but in a way I am too lazy to articulate at the moment.
The emphasis on “do” indicates an “established fact” that the author is seeking additional context on.
yeah I think that is exactly what I wanted to say but was too lazy to write succinctly while very tired eepy