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''"WHAT IT IS, MY DOGE?"''

English syntax has a subject-verb-object word order, meaning that the subject precedes the verb which precedes the object (eg. "''I am'' here."). The exception to this is questions, which have a verb-subject-object word order, inverting the subject and the verb (eg. "Where ''am I''?"). In the [[Homestar Runner universe]], however, the characters occasionally fail to invert the subject and the verb, creating a '''non-inverted question''' (eg. "Where ''I am''?").

== Appearances ==

* [[Where My Hat Is At?]] — [[Homestar Runner]] repeatedly asks the title question.
* [[Where's The Cheat?]] — [[Bubs]] asks, "Where [[The Cheat]] is at?"
* [[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 10.2]] — Homestar asks [[Strong Bad]], "Okay, what I'm supposed to do now?"
* Email [[dangeresque 3]] — Strong Bad as [[Dangeresque (character)|Dangeresque]] asks, "Who this is?"
* [[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]] — Homestar exclaims, "What I'm supposed to do with ''that'' mess?"
* Email [[alternate universe]] — [[Vector Strong Bad]] asks, "WHAT IT IS MY DOGE?"
* Email [[keep cool]] — Strong Bad asks, "How hot it is right now?"
* [[Georgia Tech - 26 Apr 2007|Georgia Tech talk]] — [[Matt Chapman]] says, "Why [Bubs] has a [[Toilets|toilet]] brush in some cartoon?"
* [[Coach Z's 110%]] — A reporter asks Homestar, "How you did [th]at?"
* [[Where My Hat Is At? (toon)]] — Along with the original book, Homestar repeatedly asks the title question.
* [[I Killed Pom Pom]] — Homestar asks, "Who I'm supposed to pin this murder on?"
* [[The Next April Fools' Thing]] — Strong Bad's email intro song is "If I can't check my email, then how I'm s'posed to live my life?"

== See Also ==

* [[Jumbled Words]]
* [[Deliberately Poor English]]
* [[I'm]]
[[Category:Word running gags]]
[[Category:Spelling and Grammar]]

Non-inverted Questions - Revision history

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