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Did you mean vs Did you mean if?

The correct phrase is "did you mean." Adding "if" at the end is not necessary and would make the sentence sound awkward. The phrase "did you mean" is commonly used in English to ask for clarification or confirmation.

Last updated: March 15, 2024 • 698 views

Did you mean

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to ask for clarification or confirmation when someone is unsure about the meaning of what was said.
  • Nov 17, 2009 ... "Do you mean" - present tense (used as a response to something someone is saying/writing now) "Did you mean" - past tense (response to something someone said/ ...
  • Dec 21, 2011 ... *.mm and put line with #import "AQRecorder.h" still getting error "Unknown type name 'class'; did you mean ' ...
  • Apr 14, 2022 ... I am getting the following error: NameError: name 'Dash' is not defined. Did you mean: 'hash'? Basically just installed dash and am trying ...
  • Mar 2, 2011 ... See 'git --help' Did you mean this? push. What is the config setting ... See 'git --help' Did you mean this? push kristian@office ...
  • Jan 24, 2024 ... "Did you mean"...No I fucking didn't Google. I'm using quotes for a reason. I am specifically looking for an exact phrase. Verbatim is ...
  • Jan 18, 2019 ... No command 'your' found, did you mean: #7531. Closed. Alnyz opened this issue on Jan ...
  • Apr 20, 2020 ... It asks every time "did you mean living room?' anytime I say "light on" or "light off". How do I make Alexa know that I always mean the light in the same group ...
  • Jul 12, 2014 ... Did you mean htmlFor? Any Wev developer new to React (or using this attribute in JSX for the 1st time) will think. WTF! how can the DOM ...
  • Jul 15, 2022 ... Did you mean to configure two Purchases objects? What I'm doing so far in my code is to initialize the Purchases like that: Future<void> ...
  • Oct 27, 2022 ... "Did you mean to add a recipient? You wrote “…[Email and phone redacted] ”, but it looks like you may have missed adding the recipient.".

Did you mean if?

This phrase is not correct in English. Adding "if" at the end makes the sentence awkward and incorrect.

  • However, the original query string will still be parsed, since you'll often want to ask the user "Did you mean: [...] ?" - if you want to automatically use the corrected  ...
  • An interesting fact is that sometimes same search query gets you different 'did you mean' if you are on different projects (even if they are of the ...
  • Aug 26, 2008 ... There is also a cool feature that will suggest other possible terms ("Did you mean ?") if your search returns no results. So far the only ...
  • May 1, 2008 ... How can you search without "did you mean?" if you can't spell what it is your looking for. ADD FEATURE PLEASE! Sep 26, 2010. #56 MChuri.

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