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Question Without Auxilliary

In this opportunity, I would like to discuss about the title above that I think it is necessary to. Giving a question like; your name please ..? instead of; what's your name? without using an auxilliary is permitted. This is used specially in free or daily conversation as well as in few formal situation ... To say it, we need to cut one or more words. for example; What's (what is) your name? => your name? That will be more politely when we add the word "please" in the end of the question, like; your name, please?. Let's learn more about that. In the sentence above we cut the question word which is important to be used to make clear of the meaning. Besides, we also omit the word "is" as structural-meaning verb. This is probably good in some case but all depends on the situation. I mean that the situation supports the questions. Situation here is contextual. There has been other expression preceding. For example: Guess : Good morning, madam R