correct this sentence

Guest   Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:19 pm GMT
hi all please help me

I don't know what you are going to do?
I don't know what are you going to do?

which one is correct?




Thanks a million
Guest   Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:30 pm GMT
Well, out of those two, the first is correct grammatically and the second is not. I'm not sure if it has the meaning you want to express, though, since you haven't given any additional information.
Guest   Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:54 pm GMT
Neither is really correct. The punctuation is wrong unless the first one is an echoing of a question.

I don't know what you are going to do?
(You've told me, but you think I didn't hear you?)

I don't know what you are going to do.
(Get rid of the question mark.)

I don't know. What are you going to do?
(Break it up and it makes sense.)
Uriel   Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:33 am GMT
The first one is right.
Guest   Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:50 am GMT
How is it right by itself, Uriel? It strikes me as strange with that question mark?
Guest   Tue Mar 04, 2008 3:39 pm GMT
It's a confirmatory sentence.
Uriel   Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:08 am GMT
To make the second one right, you would need to insert a comma in between know and what, which then turns it into a compound of a statement ("I don't know"), and a separate question ("what are you going to do?"). Which I think is getting more complicated than the original poster probably intended -- he probably just wanted to know if the "are" was supposed to go before or after the "you".
Guest   Fri Mar 07, 2008 3:27 pm GMT
Hi Uriel,

You are absolutely correct, I just wanted to know where the "are" should come.





Thank a lot to all of you.
piggy   Sat Mar 08, 2008 4:38 am GMT
Uriel said what i meaned. I thought it but i didn't know how to describle. You're so good, Uriel !