Sentence examples for ask what did from inspiring English sources

The phrase "ask what did" is not correct in standard written English.
It is not usable as it stands, as it lacks proper grammatical structure.
Example: "I wanted to ask what did you think about the proposal?" should be rephrased to "I wanted to ask what you thought about the proposal."
Alternatives: "inquire what" or "ask what you".

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We could ask, What did you miss here?

"My mom will ask, 'What did you have for a snack?' " she said.

And a crucial step in answering that question is to ask: What did it feel like?

Jim would ask, 'What did he want me to do?' and I would tell him".

"Teri and I often ask, What did we do to deserve this?" Doug Johnson said.

"You have to ask: What did one or another office do?" he said.

"If you ask, 'What did you give the doorman?' they'll never tell you.

People often ask what did the industry get; show us a bill the industry got.

To my friends in the "open" Internet movement, I have to ask: what did you think would happen?

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"The stock goes up and we ask, ‘What did we do?' It goes down and we ask the same thing," he says.

So before the personality parade begins, Labour needs to ask -- what did it get right over the past 13 years, and what did it get wrong?

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