When we start reading a piece of text, how do our brains know to read it in such a way that accounts for both the upcoming punctuation and sentence structure that we haven’t gotten to yet?
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The structure of our language syntax accounts for this, usually. There is also a lot of implications involved, sort of ‘read between the lines’ type stuff that’s supposed to be inferred.
Are you reading this with an upward inflection as to create the tone of a question?
The first word of the sentence set it up to be a question. You know this inherently, but you probably can’t site any specific rules off the top of your head for how or why this is.
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