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Discover LudwigThe part of the sentence "he really dead" is not correct in written English.
The correct phrase should be "he is really dead." This phrase can be used when discussing a person who has died or to emphasize the fact that a person is deceased. Example: We heard the news that Joe had died and we couldn't believe it—he is really dead.
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But is he really dead?
There's been all sorts of speculation about the fate of Jon Snow (is he really dead or will he come back to life?) and we've been promised some massive dragons but the latest exciting news to be revealed is the list of directors for each episode.
Or worse, is he really dead?
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And, by the way, is she really dead?
When he was confronted with the power of the Sword, "truth", he was forced to see that he was really dead, and immediately disappeared.
What is he, really, really dead now? "I'm afraid I have some difficult news," he told us.
Doubts arose that he was really dead; false Fredericks appeared everywhere; in Sicily a legend grew that he had been conveyed to the Aetna volcano; in Germany that he was encapsuled in a mountain and would return as the latter-day emperor to punish the worldly church and peacefully reestablish the Holy Roman Empire.
He's dug his own grave into the side of one of those bone-dry hills, and tonight he plans to take pills and lie down in it; all he needs is for someone to come in the morning to check that he's really dead, and then to cover him with twenty shovelfuls of earth.
"He's really dead," I say.
Is the twist that he's really dead?
The dead man's son testified that his father had pushed him to the brink of suicide, while his daughter has said she attended her father's wake only because she wanted to make sure he was really dead.
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