Grammar – Correct Usage of ‘I Wonder What Your Thoughts On It’

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I am trying to reach out to someone on Twitter to ask their opinions on a product they bought.

Does it sound natural & grammatically correct to say "I wonder what your thoughts on it"?

How about "I wonder what your thoughts are about this product"?

Best Answer

I wonder what your thoughts are about this product.

This is grammatically correct. The ordering feels a bit off to me – I'd prefer the “are” to go at the end – but that preference feels weak enough to be just my dialect.

To answer the first question:

I wonder what your thoughts on it are.

The simplest sentence of this form is “I wonder what it is.”. I feel like it breaks down like this, though I couldn't possibly tell you why:

┌ wonder ┬─────────.
I        what ┬─ is
              it

(I wonder (what it is)).

jr_kim's answer, “I wonder what are your thoughts about this product” isn't incorrect per se, but it's a non-standard dialect; it's not formal, written English, and some might consider it a little odd. With different punctuation to make it a question with a preceding subordinate clause, however:

I wonder, what are your thoughts about this product?

it's perfectly grammatically correct.

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