Is it correct to say “What's the happened?”?
I would say just "What happened?", but I've heard this also.
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Are you sure it's not "What the bleep happened?", with "bleep" kind of swallowed?
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Are you sure it's not "What the bleep happened?", with "bleep" kind of swallowed?
– Hot Licks
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Are you sure it's not "What the bleep happened?", with "bleep" kind of swallowed?
– Hot Licks
yesterday
Are you sure it's not "What the bleep happened?", with "bleep" kind of swallowed?
– Hot Licks
yesterday
Are you sure it's not "What the bleep happened?", with "bleep" kind of swallowed?
– Hot Licks
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No. The reason is that "happened" is not a noun, it is the past tense of a verb. Verbs do not take the definite article "the."
Some proper ways to express the question:
What happened?
What has happened?
What's happened?
The last one is a contraction of "What has happened?"
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I guess you were thinking of something like "What the [missing word] happened"
You can build a sentence in this way if you use a noun instead of a missing word.
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Could you give an example of what you mean?
– Tim Foster
yesterday
What the heck happened.
– Elissa Smart
yesterday
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In that case could you edit your answer to "What the [missing word] happened?"
– Tim Foster
yesterday
sorry, it was a typo
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yesterday
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No. The reason is that "happened" is not a noun, it is the past tense of a verb. Verbs do not take the definite article "the."
Some proper ways to express the question:
What happened?
What has happened?
What's happened?
The last one is a contraction of "What has happened?"
answered yesterday
DamilaDamila
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No. The reason is that "happened" is not a noun, it is the past tense of a verb. Verbs do not take the definite article "the."
Some proper ways to express the question:
What happened?
What has happened?
What's happened?
The last one is a contraction of "What has happened?"
answered yesterday
DamilaDamila
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No. The reason is that "happened" is not a noun, it is the past tense of a verb. Verbs do not take the definite article "the."
Some proper ways to express the question:
What happened?
What has happened?
What's happened?
The last one is a contraction of "What has happened?"
answered yesterday
DamilaDamila
4447
No. The reason is that "happened" is not a noun, it is the past tense of a verb. Verbs do not take the definite article "the."
Some proper ways to express the question:
What happened?
What has happened?
What's happened?
The last one is a contraction of "What has happened?"
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DamilaDamila
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I guess you were thinking of something like "What the [missing word] happened"
You can build a sentence in this way if you use a noun instead of a missing word.
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Could you give an example of what you mean?
– Tim Foster
yesterday
What the heck happened.
– Elissa Smart
yesterday
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In that case could you edit your answer to "What the [missing word] happened?"
– Tim Foster
yesterday
sorry, it was a typo
– Elissa Smart
yesterday
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I guess you were thinking of something like "What the [missing word] happened"
You can build a sentence in this way if you use a noun instead of a missing word.
edited 7 hours ago
Jason Bassford
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Elissa SmartElissa Smart
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Could you give an example of what you mean?
– Tim Foster
yesterday
What the heck happened.
– Elissa Smart
yesterday
1
In that case could you edit your answer to "What the [missing word] happened?"
– Tim Foster
yesterday
sorry, it was a typo
– Elissa Smart
yesterday
add a comment |
I guess you were thinking of something like "What the [missing word] happened"
You can build a sentence in this way if you use a noun instead of a missing word.
edited 7 hours ago
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I guess you were thinking of something like "What the [missing word] happened"
You can build a sentence in this way if you use a noun instead of a missing word.
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Could you give an example of what you mean?
– Tim Foster
yesterday
What the heck happened.
– Elissa Smart
yesterday
1
In that case could you edit your answer to "What the [missing word] happened?"
– Tim Foster
yesterday
sorry, it was a typo
– Elissa Smart
yesterday
add a comment |
Could you give an example of what you mean?
– Tim Foster
yesterday
What the heck happened.
– Elissa Smart
yesterday
1
In that case could you edit your answer to "What the [missing word] happened?"
– Tim Foster
yesterday
sorry, it was a typo
– Elissa Smart
yesterday
Could you give an example of what you mean?
– Tim Foster
yesterday
Could you give an example of what you mean?
– Tim Foster
yesterday
What the heck happened.
– Elissa Smart
yesterday
What the heck happened.
– Elissa Smart
yesterday
1
1
In that case could you edit your answer to "What the [missing word] happened?"
– Tim Foster
yesterday
In that case could you edit your answer to "What the [missing word] happened?"
– Tim Foster
yesterday
sorry, it was a typo
– Elissa Smart
yesterday
sorry, it was a typo
– Elissa Smart
yesterday
add a comment |
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Are you sure it's not "What the bleep happened?", with "bleep" kind of swallowed?
– Hot Licks
yesterday